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COLLABORATION

Japanese consortium to look at investment and offtake

opportunities from Acme’s green ammonia project

A consortium of Japanese majors – generation companies and chemical plant and studying infrastructure needs,
IHI Corporation, Hokkaido Electric manufacturers. while Mitsubishi Gas Chemical wants
Power, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Com- to decarbonise its ammonia use. Mitsui
pany, shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Ammonia, a raw material for fertil- O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has signed an MoU
Lines, Mizuho Bank, and Tokyo Cen- isers and chemicals, is a next-genera- with IHI Corporation to develop a green
tury Corporation – has signed a Memo- tion clean energy source that does not ammonia supply chain. MOL is work-
randum of Understanding (MoU) to emit CO during combustion. It has the ing toward Japan’s fi rst import of green
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explore investment opportunities in potential to provide decarbonisation ammonia, utilising ocean-going vessels
a green ammonia production project solutions in various fi elds. Last year, to transport the ammonia from IHI’s
currently under development in India, multinational company IHI Corpora- production base in India to Japan’s
according to a statement issued by the tion signed a term sheet to import up primary terminals, followed by coastal
shipping major. to 400,000 tonnes from Acme’s project. vessels for delivery to secondary terminals.
Now, IHI has signed the MoU with the Mizuho Bank is planning to fi nance ¥2
In the project, a new green other Japanese fi rms. trillion ($13-bn) in hydrogen and ammo-
ammonia facility will be established in nia supply chains by 2030, and Tokyo
Odisha by 2030, in collaboration with Under the MoU, the partners plan to Century is exploring green ammonia
Acme Group, a major renewable create a robust ammonia value chain bet- as part of its shift beyond solar to sup-
energy company in India. The facility ween India and Japan. Reportedly, the port carbon neutrality. After IHI signed
aims to produce about 4-lakh tonnes six companies will evaluate the estab- the term sheet with Acme last year, they
of green ammonia annually. This lishment of a special-purpose company announced the signing of numerous con-
green ammonia will be safely and sta- for ammonia production and invest- tracts for the construction of an ammonia-
bly transported to Japan, catering to ment participation. Hokkaido Electric fuelled gas carrier vessel, which is
various domestic users such as power is testing ammonia co-fi ring at its coal expected to be completed next year.

GROWTH PLANS
Adani Green Energy to add 3-GW solar in Gujarat

Adani Green Energy Ltd., (AGEL) laid down the blueprint for Khavda Group, will achieve 10-GW of metal-
plans to add 3 gigawatt (GW) or Power plant to generate 26-GW of lurgical grade silica-polysilicon-ingot-
3,000-megawatt (MW) of solar power solar and 4-GW of wind energy with wafer capacity by 2027-28. It will also
with an investment of $1.5-2-billion an investment of Rs. 1.5-lakh crore by expand its ancillary unit production
by the end of this year and increase its 2029. (solar glass, aluminium frames, en-
overall capacity to 7-GW at Khavda in capsulants and back-sheets) to 10 GW
Gujarat. Backward integration by 2027-28. The company has ingot-
As part of backward integration, wafer capacity of 2-GW already
The company recently operation- Adani Group has set up a solar cell operational.
alised 693-MW of renewable energy and module manufacturing capacity
projects, taking the overall capacity of 4-GW at Adani Ports and Special Adani Wind, in collaboration with
to 3.7-GW at Khavda. With the latest Economic Zone near Mundra port. The W2E Wind to Energy GmbH, Germany,
addition, AGEL’s overall capacity has company is said to have already started has developed one of the most power-
increased to 15-GW. work on increasing this capacity to ful onshore wind turbines of 5.2-MW,
10-GW, given the rising demand. featuring a rotor diameter of 160 metre
Spread over 538 sq km, which is with a swept area of 20,106 sq m and a
almost the size of Mumbai, AGEL has Adani Solar, the PV unit of Adani tip height of 200 metre.

142 Chemical Weekly April 8, 2025

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