Europe’s Top Fertilizer Maker Uses Green Hydrogen to Cut CO2 (1)

Europe’s largest fertilizer maker, Yara International ASA, opened a renewable hydrogen plant in Norway as it seeks to decarbonize a process that uses natural gas as a feedstock.

The fertilizer industry faces a tough task to cut emissions, as gas is both a feedstock and a source of energy in the production of ammonia. So-called green ammonia can be produced by combining hydrogen from water electrolysis using renewable energy with nitrogen.

The 24-megawatt demonstration facility, currently Europe’s largest water electrolysis plant, is a step toward cutting emissions at the Heroya factory, one of Norway’s largest sources of CO2 outside ...