bout 20 growers in the north of England and Scotland will be growing spring malting barley and wheat for the distilling market using Yara’s fossil-free green fertilisers next spring, under contract with Simpsons Malt.
Yara has already taken steps to decarbonise the production of fertilisers, developing catalyst abatement technology that can reduce nitrous oxide emissions during production by up to 90%.
But those products still rely on natural gas as the raw material for the hydrogen, which is then mixed with nitrogen to produce ammonia via the Haber-Bosch process.
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Indian renewable energy company Acme Group also plans to set up a 1.3m tonne/year green ammonia facility at Gopalpur.
Separately, the Adani Group is seeking to raise nearly $4bn to help develop its green hydrogen projects, newsire Bloomberg reported 26 October.
The group declined to comment when contacted by ICIS.
Adani New Industries Ltd (ANIL), a subsidiary of the Adani Group is in discussions with lenders to raise the money to fund its green hydrogen projects.
In September, Adani signed a joint venture agreement with Japanese trading and marketing firm Kowa Holdings for the sale and marketing of green hydrogen in Japan, Taiwan and Hawaii markets.
One of the first projects of the company is a 1m tonne/year green hydrogen facility in Gujarat which should begin production by the fiscal year ending March 2027.
“Depending on market conditions ANIL aims to increase capacity to up to 3m tonnes/year of green hydrogen in the next 10 years with an investment of about $50bn,” it said in a statement on 14 September.
Focus article by Priya Jestin
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