SECI allocates 724,000 tonnes of green ammonia to 13 Indian fertiliser units

Announced in March 2026, India's SECI completed competitive bidding under the SIGHT Programme to supply 724,000 tonnes per annum of green ammonia across 13 fertiliser units on 10-year contracts. The deal anchors green hydrogen demand in a major ammonia-consuming sector and creates competitive pricing benchmarks for India's decarbonisation pathway.

Announced in March 2026 under the National Green Hydrogen Mission's Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) Programme, the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) ran competitive bidding for green ammonia supply to fertiliser units. The exercise delivered price discovery of ₹49.75 to ₹64.74 per kilogram, well below the prevailing international benchmark of roughly ₹110 per kilogram. SECI allocated 724,000 tonnes per annum of green ammonia across 13 fertiliser units nationwide on 10-year contracts, marking one of India's first large-scale demand-aggregation moves from pilots to market deployment.

India's fertiliser sector is the directly affected industry, with 13 fertiliser units receiving green ammonia under the framework. Green ammonia producers benefit from 10-year offtake agreements that provide long-term demand visibility and investment certainty, de-risking early-stage investments and supporting domestic production scale-up. By replacing imported grey ammonia in non-urea fertiliser production, India could achieve foreign exchange savings of about $2.5 billion over ten years. Coordination among the Department of Fertilizers, MNRE, SECI, and industry stakeholders ensures alignment between policy, procurement, and industrial deployment.

Fertiliser units and green ammonia producers should monitor execution of the 10-year supply agreements and the scale-up of domestic production capacity they are designed to support. The programme sits within the broader NGHM, which has an outlay of ₹19,744 crore and targets at least 5 million metric tonnes of green hydrogen annually by 2030. Industry stakeholders should track how the established competitive pricing benchmarks and demand-aggregation model extend to other ammonia-consuming sectors as India positions itself in the global green hydrogen derivatives market.

Key figure — Allocation: 724,000 tonnes per annum of green ammonia across 13 fertiliser units