Picture a port town on Andhra Pradesh’s east coast, where ships have long carried fertiliser and fuel out to the world — and where the next cargo leaving the harbour will be made from sunlight, wind and water. On 4 November 2026, AM Green formally commenced construction of its green ammonia and green hydrogen complex in Kakinada, a project the company says will grow to 1.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) and put India at the centre of the world’s clean-fuel trade.
AM Green’s Kakinada ammonia facility and port infrastructure.
The start of construction was marked by the erection of the project’s first major equipment, at a ceremony attended by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan. The company says the complex is being built on a 495-acre site in Kakinada, converting an existing natural gas-based ammonia and urea facility into a renewable-powered green ammonia plant.
Built around round-the-clock clean power
What makes Kakinada different is not just its scale, but the energy system behind it. The company says the complex will be powered by an integrated clean-energy infrastructure comprising 7.5 GW of renewable energy capacity, 2 GW of pumped storage and 1,950 MW of electrolyser capacity. That combination — wind and solar, backed by pumped-hydro storage and advanced alkaline electrolysis — is designed to give the plant round-the-clock renewable electricity, so green hydrogen can be made steadily and converted into green ammonia at world scale.
AM Green, founded by Greenko Group founders Anil Chalamalasetty and Mahesh Kolli and based in Hyderabad, says the facility is designed to enable large-scale production of green ammonia with zero carbon dioxide emissions from its production process. The plant has also been pre-certified by CertifHy as complying with the European Union’s RFNBO requirements for green ammonia, a standard that governs renewable fuels of non-biological origin.
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Phased to 1.5 million tonnes a year
The company says production will ramp up in phases, with the first 0.5 MTPA targeted by 2027 and the full 1.5 MTPA capacity reached by 2030. That phased build turns a single coastal site into one of the largest green ammonia projects anywhere — a scale that lets India supply clean fuel and clean fertiliser feedstock to buyers across Europe and Asia, rather than importing the technology or the molecule from elsewhere.
Demand is already lining up. The company says it has signed a long-term agreement with Germany’s Uniper for up to 500,000 tonnes of renewable ammonia a year, and a binding heads of agreement with Japan’s JERA for about 70,000 tonnes a year over five years, with the fuel intended for a maritime bunkering venture planned with Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha. The Kakinada project has also secured a €585 million H2Global contract to supply green hydrogen-based ammonia to the European market for a decade.
A new export industry for Andhra Pradesh
For Andhra Pradesh, the project is a landmark in its clean-energy ambitions. Chief Minister Naidu said green ammonia represents a transformative solution spanning clean fuels and sustainable fertilisers, and described the commencement of equipment erection at Kakinada as a key milestone in the state’s vision, set out in its Integrated Clean Energy Policy launched in October 2024, of becoming India’s green hydrogen hub. The company says the project will revive legacy industrial infrastructure, create employment during construction and operations — with up to 8,000 jobs expected in the construction phase — and build a broader clean-energy ecosystem around Kakinada’s deep-water port.
From a converted fertiliser complex on India’s east coast, AM Green is building something the world has been waiting for: green ammonia at a scale, a standard and a price that lets ships, power plants and farms run cleaner — made in India, and shipped from Kakinada to the world.
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