Jordan signs $1bn agreement for off-grid green ammonia complex at Aqaba

Jordan's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has signed a US$1 billion investment agreement with Jordan Green Ammonia (JGA) to build a green hydrogen and ammonia plant near the port of Aqaba. The project will be developed by Poland-based Hynfra together with UAE-based industrial development company Fidelity Group, under a formal agreement signed in Amman on 10 May 2026, after cabinet clearance earlier in the month.

The facility is designed as an off-grid, vertically integrated complex — separate from the national grid — powered by approximately 550 MW of solar generation with 500 MWh of energy storage. Green hydrogen produced on site will be converted into an estimated 100,000 tonnes of green ammonia per year for export, primarily to Europe and Asia. The project is expected to cut around 200,000 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.

Regional context: from announcements to contracts

The Aqaba project lands in a region where green hydrogen is slowly moving from press releases to binding structures. Saudi Arabia's US$8.4 billion NEOM Green Hydrogen project — a joint venture of ACWA Power, Air Products and NEOM — remains the benchmark, with up to 4 GW of solar and wind and an exclusive 30-year ammonia offtake agreement with Air Products. In Oman, ACME Group is developing a multi-phase complex at Duqm with offtake ties to Yara. In Namibia, the Hyphen project received a US$5.93 million SEFA grant from the African Development Bank in September 2026 to advance toward final investment decision — after the withdrawal of a proposed 300,000 t/year ammonia arrangement with RWE in 2025 sharpened the industry's focus on the scarcity of creditworthy buyers.

That is what makes the Aqaba structure notable: its off-grid, storage-backed design is explicitly built around export logistics rather than grid integration, and its solar-plus-storage configuration — 550 MW PV with 500 MWh of batteries — shows battery storage being treated as core hydrogen production infrastructure, not an ancillary grid asset.

For electrolyser and storage suppliers, the financing milestone to watch is 2027: if Aqaba closes on schedule, Jordan joins Oman and Saudi Arabia as a bankable hydrogen export market with repeat procurement ahead.