Union Minister of New & Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) said on Monday that the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), acting as an intermediary aggregator, executed Green Ammonia Sale Agreements (GASA) of 7.24 tonnes per annum (TPA) with leading fertiliser companies.
Minister of New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi, said that the exchange of Green Ammonia Purchase Agreements (GAPA) and GASA marks an important step in strengthening India’s energy security, especially at a time when the world is facing uncertainty.
Joshi was speaking at an event on the exchange of Green Ammonia Agreements for the fertiliser sector under the National Green Hydrogen Mission.
The exchange of agreements between industry, SECI and fertilizer companies, with a tenure of 10 years, marks a key milestone towards operationalizing these projects, the Minister said. The long-term agreements provide demand certainty, enable financial closure and support large-scale investments in green ammonia production.
The initiative is expected to result in foreign exchange savings of approximately $2.5 billion over a period of 10 years through substitution of imported grey ammonia in non-urea based fertilizer units.
Under the Mission, the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) Programme is being implemented for incentivising the production of Green Hydrogen in India and cost competitiveness through transparent competitive bidding. In this context, SECI conducted competitive bidding for the supply of green ammonia to fertilizer units across the country.
The bidding process has led to the discovery of competitive green ammonia prices, with the lowest discovered price of approximately ₹49.75 per kg and an overall discovered price range of about ₹49.75–64.74 per kg. In comparison, internationally discovered prices have been reported at approximately Euro 1,000 per tonne (around ₹110 per kg), indicating that the prices discovered in India are competitive as compared with global benchmarks.
Through this process, SECI has allocated a total capacity of approximately 7,24,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) to selected developers, with supply linked to 13 fertilizer units across the country.
For instance, the ACME Group said it has signed a 10-year binding GAPA with the SECI for a capacity of 3.7 lakh TPA of green ammonia. The estimated contract value over the 10-year period is Rs 20,000 crore. This follows the Letters of Award (LOA) received by ACME from SECI in August and September 2025 under the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) Scheme Mode-2A, Tranche-I, India’s first green hydrogen
and ammonia procurement program.
The competitive bidding has ensured transparency, efficient price discovery, and long-term demand assurance, thereby enabling scale-up and investment in green ammonia production.
The fetiliser firms that signed agreements include Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO), Paradeep Phosphates (PPL), India Potash (IPL) and Coromandel International Limited (CIL).
Published on March 30, 2026
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