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- Uniper CEO Michael Lewis: “One of many first large-scale provide corridors between India and Europe”
- AM Inexperienced Founder Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty: “A milestone for India’s function within the international vitality transition”
DÜSSELDORF, Germany and HYDERABAD, India, Jan. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Uniper World Commodities SE (“Uniper”) and AM Inexperienced Ammonia India Non-public Restricted (“AM Inexperienced Ammonia”) at present introduced the signing of a long-term binding offtake settlement for renewable ammonia licensed as a Renewable Gasoline of Non-Organic Origin (RFNBO). The settlement, the primary of its type for an Indian firm, was exchanged between Mr. Michael Lewis, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and CEO of Uniper, and Mr. Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty, Founder & Group Chairman of AM Inexperienced, within the presence of His Excellency German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Honourable Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at present at Ahmedabad.
Beneath the settlement, Uniper will offtake as much as 500,000 tons per 12 months from AM Inexperienced’s inexperienced ammonia initiatives. First cargo is anticipated to occur as early as 2028 from AM Inexperienced Ammonia’s first 1MTPA beneath building plant in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. The contract is a crucial milestone in India’s quest of changing into a number one exporter of inexperienced hydrogen and inexperienced ammonia to the world and is aligned with India’s Honourable Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient of Nationwide Hydrogen Mission.
For Uniper, the settlement represents a big step ahead in creating a diversified portfolio of renewable and low-carbon molecules for European clients. As a feedstock and a possible hydrogen service, renewable ammonia will assist decarbonize industrial sectors similar to chemical substances, fertilizers, refining, and, over time, delivery. Uniper and AM Inexperienced Ammonia will proceed working with certification our bodies to make sure traceability and excessive integrity reporting for European end-users.
Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty, Founder, Greenko Group and AM Inexperienced, mentioned: “This partnership is a milestone for India’s function within the international vitality transition. AM Inexperienced’s renewable ammonia is designed to fulfill stringent European RFNBO compliance requirements. That is achieved by way of our distinctive agency and dispatchable clear electrical energy options. It’s enabling a number of downstream sectors together with ammonia, aluminium, chemical substances, and different energy-intensive industries decrease their emissions considerably for India and now for the World.”
Michael Lewis, CBE, CEO of Uniper, mentioned: “This settlement with AM Inexperienced Ammonia is a key constructing block in our technique to supply our clients with dependable entry to renewable and low carbon molecules at scale. Inexperienced ammonia stands out as one of the vital promising options to decarbonise CO2-intensive manufacturing of chemical substances, fertilizers and, by way of inexperienced hydrogen, additionally in refining. Importantly, it provides among the many lowest CO2 avoidance prices in comparison with different renewable and low carbon molecules – due to its mature manufacturing course of and the absence of carbon feedstock necessities. With clear, secure and credible guidelines – and with procurement and demand-side measures similar to clear quotas for renewable molecules that reward verified CO2-abatement efficiency – we are able to speed up the decarbonization whereas safeguarding competitiveness. We’re proud to assist set up one of many first large-scale provide corridors between India and Europe.”
Mahesh Kolli, Co-Founder, Greenko Group and AM Inexperienced, mentioned: “I’m blissful to share that our partnership with Uniper reaffirms our providing of the bottom potential carbon footprint hydrogen/ammonia delivered on the proper value level for giant scale adoption for decarbonising international vitality programs. This end result displays the targeted collaboration and disciplined execution of our groups, strengthened by the strategic partnership of our buyers, Gentari, GIC, ADIA — collectively creating an built-in ecosystem able to delivering inexperienced ammonia at a world scale with pace and reliability.”
John Roper, CEO Center East, Uniper World Commodities, commented: “I’m delighted and immensely proud that we have now reached this landmark settlement. It stands as a testomony to the dedication and perseverance of our groups, whose collaborative spirit, progressive considering, and shared imaginative and prescient have turned our ambition into actuality. Collectively, we have now paved the way in which for a sustainable future and demonstrated what will be completed by way of real partnership. Furthermore, this landmark settlement reveals that by aligning provide, certification and demand-side incentives, we are able to deliver aggressive, renewable molecules to European business at scale – delivering actual emission reductions.”
About AM Inexperienced Ammonia Portfolio Tasks
AM Inexperienced Ammonia is a partnership amongst AM Inexperienced, Gentari, GIC and Abu Dhabi Funding Authority (ADIA). AM Inexperienced is creating a portfolio of inexperienced ammonia vegetation throughout Kakinada, Tuticorin and Kandla. The primary Plant of this portfolio of 1 MTPA capability is beneath building in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh which achieved vital milestone of Last Funding Determination (FID) in 2024. AM Inexperienced Ammonia has already began building on its inexperienced ammonia plant, making it one among choose few large-scale RFNBO compliant inexperienced ammonia vegetation in building globally. The plant has already achieved vital progress together with website works, award of all main contracts, key approvals, and is scheduled to start out provide of inexperienced ammonia in 2028. The event is supported by a community of famend companions together with Casale, Air Liquide, Rely – a JV between Technip Energies and John Cockerill, Toyo, Gentari, NTPC Renewables and lots of others. The venture helps safe greater than 600 native jobs and is anticipated to keep away from round 2 million tonnes of CO2 emissions yearly as soon as totally operational.
About AM Inexperienced
AM Inexperienced, a devoted platform of the Greenko Group, is concentrated on producing renewable hydrogen and changing it into renewable ammonia at scale. AM Inexperienced has created a singular structure for producing renewable vitality: a pumped storage energy plant helps the bottom load provide of renewable electrical energy from 2.3 GW of mixed wind and photo voltaic capability, utilizing superior European electrolyser and ammonia synthesis expertise. Backed by international buyers and expertise companions, AM Inexperienced not too long ago took a last funding choice to develop a world-scale facility in Kakinada, with a manufacturing capability of as much as 1 million tons renewable ammonia per 12 months.
About Uniper
Düsseldorf-based Uniper is a European vitality firm with international attain and operations in additional than 40 international locations. It has about 7,500 workers and performs a key function in making certain a safe vitality provide in Europe, significantly in its core markets of Germany, the UK, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Uniper’s 14 gigawatts of versatile energy producing capability make it a mainstay of dependable energy manufacturing. Uniper is a number one fuel dealer and one among Northwestern Europe’s most essential LNG importers, and its broad procurement portfolio enhances provide safety. Uniper’s investments in renewables, hydrogen, and different low-carbon vitality carriers propel the transformation of the vitality system.
Uniper offers vitality and providers to about 1,000 municipalities and industrial firms in its dwelling market, Germany. Uniper can be Germany’s largest operator of fuel storage amenities and hydropower vegetation.
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