New Delhi, June 25
The Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI), has extended the deadline for submitting bids in the ongoing tender pertaining to the production and supply of green ammonia to June 30, 2025, it was announced on Wednesday.
The tender was issued on June 7 and the last date for bid submission fixed earlier was June 26.
The tender calls for the production and supply of 724,000 tonnes of green ammonia annually across 13 fertiliser plants, under the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) scheme. The green ammonia is being procured with the aim of reducing the country’s carbon footprint in the production of fertilisers.
SECI, a Navratna Central Public Sector Undertaking under the administrative control of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), will anchor demand aggregation and sign long-term offtake agreements, providing producers with market certainty over a 10-year contract period.
Ammonia, an essential component in urea and other nitrogen-based fertilizers, is currently produced using fossil fuels, leading to high greenhouse gas emissions. SECI’s tender leverages renewable energy to produce green hydrogen and ammonia, promoting low-emission, domestic fertilizer production.