Green Ammonia

Imagine baking the exact same loaf of bread, but switching from a coal fired oven to a solar powered one, producing an identical final product with a dramatically smaller carbon footprint behind it. Green ammonia is that same substitution applied to one of the world's most carbon intensive industrial chemicals.

Ammonia is traditionally produced using natural gas as both a feedstock and an energy source, making it one of the more carbon intensive chemicals manufactured at scale, and it sits at the heart of the fertiliser industry since it is the base ingredient for urea and other nitrogenous fertilisers. Green ammonia replaces that natural gas derived hydrogen input with green hydrogen, produced by splitting water using renewable electricity, resulting in a chemically identical product made through a dramatically lower carbon process.

Beyond fertiliser, green ammonia is increasingly discussed as a hydrogen carrier and shipping fuel in its own right, since ammonia is far easier to store and transport than hydrogen gas itself. As Europe's CBAM begins pricing carbon at the border, Indian fertiliser and chemical companies exploring green ammonia are as much responding to that competitive pressure as they are to domestic climate goals.