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<p><a href="https://akercleanhydrogen.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aker Clean Hydrogen</a>, integrated hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol producer and a portfolio company of Aker Horizons, is collaborating with renewable energy developers  <a href="https://www.statkraft.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statkraft</a> and <a href="https://www.sowitec.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SOWITEC</a> to explore opportunities to produce green hydrogen and ammonia in India and Brazil.</p>
<p>The collaboration will focus on India and Brazil&#8217;s steel and fertilizer sectors. The Indian steel industry produces around 100 million tons of steel every year. The collaboration aims to use green hydrogen to substitute for grey, fossil-fuel-based hydrogen, coal, and natural gas to replace fuel and feedstock.</p>
<p>Currently, India remains the second-largest hydrogen consumer globally, with annual consumption of about seven million tons of grey hydrogen. India&#8217;s hydrogen consumption is expected to reach 12 million tons by the end of the decade and will reach 28 million tons by 2050.</p>
<p>The steel and ammonia industries add around 9% to the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) globally. Green hydrogen and green ammonia will pave the way for potential alternatives the world needs in its journey to decarbonization.</p>
<p>Aker Clean Hydrogen will collaborate with Statkraft and SOWITEC to develop power-to-X projects in the Bahia state of Brazil. The power-to-X system represents the usage of enabling technologies to store electricity by converting it into hydrogen or heat.</p>
<p>The collaboration will undertake a large-scale hybrid project, merging renewable power generation and hydrogen and ammonia production for the fertilizer sector in Brazil. The country accounts for 8% of global fertilizer consumption and is the world&#8217;s fourth-largest consumer of fertilizer.</p>
<p>The agriculture sector in Brazil imports fossil-fuel-based fertilizers in bulk. The collaboration will work toward nullifying the country&#8217;s agricultural dependency on imported grey ammonia by producing green ammonia locally. The project is set to be operationalized by 2027.</p>
<p>Institutions worldwide have projected the need for industries to focus on investments that will help reduce carbon emissions by 2050. A report published by Standard Chartered recently <a href="https://mercomindia.com/emerging-economies-need-achieve-net-zero-targets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that emerging economies need transition finance of $94.8 trillion to eliminate carbon emissions.</p>
<p>Last December, BloombergNEF (BNEF) <a href="https://mercomindia.com/steel-industry-carbon-emissions-bnef/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that the global steel industry needs a combination of dipping hydrogen prices, affordable clean power, and increased cycling to reduce carbon emissions. BNEF had pointed out that the global steel sector will need an investment of $278 billion, besides using green hydrogen technologies to eliminate GHG emissions by 2050.</p>
<div class="saboxplugin-wrap" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope itemprop="author"><div class="saboxplugin-tab"><div class="saboxplugin-gravatar"></div><div class="saboxplugin-authorname"><a href="https://cms.mercomindia.com/author/gourav-mishra/" class="vcard author" rel="author"><span class="fn">Gourav Mishra</span></a></div><div class="saboxplugin-desc"><div itemprop="description"><div class="designboxt">
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<p><strong style="text-decoration: underline">Gourav,</strong> Staff reporter at Mercom India<br />
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