In Norway, Norwegian company Equinor has scrapped plans to export so-called blue hydrogen to Germany because it is too expensive and there is insufficient demand. Equinor and Germany’s RWE had signed a memorandum of understanding in January 2022 to build a hydrogen supply chain for German power plants to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report. The plans included producing hydrogen from natural gas in combination with carbon capture and storage – known as blue hydrogen – in Norway and exporting it to hydrogen-ready gas power plants in Germany via the world’s first offshore hydrogen pipeline. “The hydrogen pipeline hasn’t proved to be viable. That also implies that hydrogen production plans are also put aside,” Equinor spokesperson Magnus Frantzen Eidsvold told Reuters. “We have decided to discontinue this early-phase project,” he added.
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