Hydrogen technology company Nel has signed a contract with Statkraft to deliver 40MW of electrolysers and develop a Norwegian green hydrogen value chain.
The electrolyser stacks will be produced at Nel’s manufacturing plant at Heroya and used to produce renewable hydrogen in one of Statkraft’s many hydrogen projects.
Statkraft aims to accelerate its annual development rate to 4GW of new power production per year and to add 2GW of renewable hydrogen production by 2030.
In Norway, Statkraft will strengthen its efforts in developing new renewable power production as well as flexibility within hydropower and wind power both on- and offshore.
“We are determined that we will contribute towards making Norway a leading producer of renewable hydrogen, and to establish an ecosystem of electrolyser and equipment suppliers,” said Nel CEO Hakon Volldal and CEO of Statkraft Christian Rynning-Tonnesen.
“The contract with Nel is the first important step in materializing our ambitious target of 2GW of green hydrogen and securing production capacity for our diverse pipeline of hydrogen projects,” Rynning-Tonnesen added.
“It is encouraging that leading Norwegian players such as Nel and Statkraft are planning value chains for green hydrogen in Norway. This is an important step in the right direction to achieve our ambitions to build a coherent value chain for hydrogen and facilitate the production of hydrogen with no or low emissions to cover the national demand for hydrogen,” said Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Aasland.