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Homegrown Greenko Group has raised USD 700 million (around Rs 5,700 crore) funding from Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, Orix Corporation of Japan, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and its own founders. Anil Chalamalasetty and Mahesh Kolli are the founders of Hyderabad-based Greenko Group. The equity funding will be utilised towards the capex of pumped storage projects which will have storage capacity of more than 25 GWh (gigawatt hour) enabling 45 billion units of carbon free energy, Kolli, who is the Joint Managing Director of Greenko Group told PTI over phone. While GIC has 51 per cent share in the funding, Orix Corporation has 16 per cent, ADIA 14 per cent and founders have 13 per cent, he said. "This equity commitment from the existing shareholders reinforces trust in our vision. CFE is helping accelerate industrial decarbonisation enhancing green quotient of Indian grid and development of green molecules and chemicals at a competitive cost," Anil Chalamalasetty, CE
Germany-based Uniper has signed an agreement with Greenko ZeroC to source green ammonia from the latter's Kakinada facility in Andhra Pradesh. "Under the MoU, the two companies intend to negotiate pricing, supply and tenure structure for a supply and purchase agreement for 2,50,000 tonnes per annum of green ammonia (GASPA) based on the heads of terms," parent Greenko Group said in a statement. Uniper and Greenko ZeroC signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and heads of terms during the ongoing India Energy Week in Bengaluru in presence of Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Greenko CEO Anil Chalmalasetty, Uniper CCO Niek den Hollander and other senior company officials, the statement said. Greenko's Kakinada project is a multi-phase green ammonia production and export facility which is in the process of adding up to 1 MTPA of green ammonia production capacity by 2027. At present, Kakinada unit produces green ammonia based on an electrolyser powered by round-the-clock ...
Hyderabad, 27 March: Hyderabad-based clean energy major Greenko Energy Holdings has announced the signing of definitive agreements for a primary equity raising of $ 155 million (About Rs 1007.5 crore at today's exchange rate) from an affiliate of Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund, GIC. and an affiliate of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority(ADIA).The GIC, which is the majority shareholder of Greenko, is investing $ 123.9 million while the ADIA subsidiary will be investing the remaining $ 31.1 million, according to the company.'These funds will help us to achieve the target of 3 giga-watt(3,000 mw) installed capacity by December, 2017 from the current 2.5 gw level," Mahesh Kolli, president and joint managing director of Greenko told Business Standard on Monday.After the last year acquisition of the US company Sun Edison's solar assets and a 100-mw hydro electric project in Himachal Pradesh from Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC(TAQA), the Indian renewable energy company is raising this .