Asahi India, Inox Air sign 20-year agreement for green hydrogen supply

As portion of the agreement, announced connected Tuesday, Inox Air Products volition grip the design, engineering, installation, operations, and continuous proviso of greenish hydrogen to the AIS installation for the adjacent 20 years.

This task marks Inox Air’s archetypal greenish hydrogen unit, with a planned capableness of 190 tonnes per annum. In the archetypal phase, it volition proviso 95 tonnes of greenish hydrogen to AIS annually.

Scheduled for commissioning by July 2024, the works volition beryllium powered by star energy, according to a property statement.

AIS volition put successful the star powerfulness works that volition supply renewable vigor for generating greenish hydrogen done the electrolysis process.

“As a starring and liable solid company, AIS is simply a beardown believer successful sustainability…Our greenfield works astatine Soniyana targets to usage 94% of its powerfulness requirements done greenish and sustainable vigor sources," said Rupinder Shelly, COO-Architectural Glass, Asahi India Glass.

In summation to the star powerfulness works investment, AIS volition besides put successful generating energy from flue gases, helium added.

AIS is mounting up this greenfield task successful Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, to manufacture high-quality interval solid for automotive and architectural purposes. The task volition beryllium successful technological collaboration with its spouse AGC Europe.

“This improvement volition importantly trim c dioxide emissions by 1,250 cardinal tonnes per annum," said Siddharth Jain, managing director, INOX Air Products. "Green hydrogen volition play a pivotal relation successful India’s vigor modulation towards decarbonization and unafraid vigor for our state arsenic good arsenic the planet."

Inox Air Products is India’s largest shaper of concern and aesculapian gases, with a manufacturing capableness of 4,200 tonnes per time of liquid gases from 48 operating locations.

Asahi India Glass is an integrated solid and model solutions company, supplying automotive and architectural glass.

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Published: 08 May 2024, 07:07 PM IST