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

  • Yara opens demonstration facility at Heroya plant in Norway
  • Renewable ammonia is important part of decarbonization: Yara
Svein Tore Holsether, right, and Jonas Gahr Store, at renewable hydrogen plan in Porsgrunn, Norway, on June 10.Photographer: Naina Helén Jåma/Bloomberg
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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.