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       India’s Acme Group to develop





       green hydrogen project in Oman





        TAIWAN           INDIAN solar developer Acme Group has  Development of the Special Economic Zone
                         acquired land to build a green hydrogen and  at Duqm (Tatweer) and ACME Group signed
                         ammonia production complex at the port of  a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to
                         Duqm in Oman.                        develop the project.
                           The Indian firm is to invest $3.5bn in the   Acme has secured a land reservation agree-
                         project, which will use 3 GW of solar capacity  ment from Oman’s Public Authority for Special
                         and 500 MW of wind power to produce 900,000  Economic Zones and Free Zones for the site at
                         tonnes per year (tpy) of green ammonia and  the Port of Duqm
                         hydrogen using electrolysis.           The green ammonia will be exported to
                           Acme said in a statement that it would be one  Europe and Asia.
                         of the world’s largest green ammonia projects   US engineering firm Black & Veatch has been
                         when it opens.                       picked as owner’s engineer for the project.
                           The plant is set to be built in several phases,   Acme Group is currently commissioning a
                         the first one of which is planned to become oper-  similar green hydrogen and ammonia plant in
                         ational by end-2022.                 Bikaner, India, that will be powered by 5 MW of
                           “The signing of land reservation agreement  solar, which could be scaled up to 10 MW.
                         will allow us to kick start pre-construction activ-  Acme already owns 2.2 GW of solar parks and
                         ities. We have hired environmental consultants  has an additional 3.05 GW under construction.
                         and owner’s engineers Black & Veatch and we   The deal is part of a plan by Oman’s Public
                         plan to start the construction at Oman as soon  Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free
                         we commission our first green hydrogen and  Zones to promote investment in clean energy by
                         green ammonia plant at Bikaner in India. The  producing hydrogen and ammonia from renew-
                         plant in Oman would be developed in phases  able energy to boost its use, including in trans-
                         and the first phase is likely to be commissioned  port and industry, Oman’s state news agency
                         by end of 2022,” said Manoj K Upadhyay,  said.™
                         founder and chairman, ACME Group.
                           In March 2021, the Oman Company for the









































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