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India to supply green ammonia to

German nuclear power firm

Kakinada site planning on 2027 launch as production hub

INDIA LEADING German nuclear power generation firm ambitions as part of a wider renewable energy
Uniper has agreed a provisional deal with India’s programme that will see India run the world’s
Greenko Group to negotiate the supply of around largest energy transition programme.”
250,000 tonnes of green ammonia each year. It is understood that Uniper and Greenko
If finalised, the Dusseldorf based agency are also discussing the possibility of applying
will be working exclusively with Greenko renewable energy offtake in India to localised
ZeroC Private Limited, a wholly owned sub- hydrogen projects, with e-methanol and avia-
sidiary of parent company Greenko. tion fuels as the end product.
The ammonia will be supplied from Greenko’s Niek den Hollander, the Chief Customer
Kakinada site in Andhra Pradesh, a dedicated Officer at Uniper, said: “Decarbonisation is
green ammonia production facility on the sub- one of the major challenges of our time and
continent’s east coast. needs quick action, therefore, we at Uniper are
The Kakinada site is currently being devel- happy to contribute to the acceleration of the
oped with the 2027 goal of producing and energy transition with our partner Greenko.
eventually exporting up to 1 mn tonnes of The Greenko Kakinada project is a very prom-
green ammonia per annum (mtpa). ising opportunity to source green ammonia
Founder, serving Chief Executive Officer and secure the supply of low-carbon hydrogen
and Managing Director of Greenko, Anil Chal- products for Germany. We are very excited
malasetty said of his firm’s plans: “Greenko is about the cooperation!”
working towards decarbonisation solutions His enthusiasm was reinforced by his
for a low-carbon economy. We are partnering CEO of Middle East business at Uniper, John
with a world-class technology partner in John Roper, who added: “Greenko has been one
Cockerill and will jointly develop large-scale of the most agile players in the green mol-
green molecule projects in India.” ecule market in this region. With Uniper as
Of the agreement to negotiate a large scale the offtake partner for green ammonia, the
export deal with Uniper, he added “(W)e are partnership will benefit from the additional
extremely delighted to partner with Uni- value added through Uniper’s global com-
per through this offtake agreement for our modity trading and logistics network. We
project which will eventually displace LNG look forward to advancing this transaction
imports and strengthen India’s green molecule with Greenko.” ™

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