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4 August 2021
Hydrogen projects update
Hydrogen Economist looks at the new hydrogen projects added to our database and the progress made on existing developments
Forty-three new projects were added to our database in the last month, across green and blue hydrogen as well as in the transport sector. Of the new projects, 19 are in Europe (France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the UK), 13 are in North America (Canada and the US), seven are in Asia-Pacific (Australia, China, India, Japan and New Zealand), three are in Africa (Algeria, Egypt and Morocco) and one is in South & Central America (Chile). In Germany, the AquaSector partners—Shell, Germany energy company RWE, Norway’s state-owned Equinor and Dutch gas grid operator Gasunie—signed a declaration of intent to further their collaboration on the project. AquaSector would s
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