Renewable energy specialist NTPC Green Energy has partnered with the gas processing technology licensor Honeywell UOP India to explore production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in India.
Under a memorandum of understanding signed on 25 April, the partners will assess how Honeywell’s eFining technology can produce SAF using green hydrogen and carbon dioxide captured from power plants operated by NTPC, which is India’s largest power utility company and the parent company of NTPC Green Energy.
The project is part of NTPC Green Energy’s green hydrogen hub project at Pudimadaka in Andhra Pradesh – a 1,200 acre facility that will produce green chemicals using sustainable manufacturing methods.
The company aims to complete the first hub by 2027 and most of the second one by 2032.
“This partnership … supports our goal of reaching a renewable energy capacity of 60 GW by 2032,” said NTPC in a statement.
At a startup cost of approximately $21.6bn, the hub will initially develop 20 GW of renewable energy projects and produce 1,500 tonnes per day of green hydrogen and 7,500 tonnes per day of green methanol, green urea and SAF.
The project will go towards India’s stated goal of 500 GW of non-fossil energy capacity by 2030, as laid out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year.
“The coming two decades are extremely crucial for India, and in the next five years we are set to achieve several major milestones,” he said.
India has also set a target of producing five million metric tonnes of green hydrogen annually by 2030, alongside decarbonisation initiatives such as achieving Net Zero emissions for Indian Railways.
