The UK and Norway will launch a new Green Industrial Partnership on clean energy, as the two non-EU European countries seek to strengthen energy relations.

Coming days after the Government signed first carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) contracts in the UK. BP, and Norwegian company Equinor are playing a major role in the first projects, called the Northern Endurance Partnership and the Net Zero Teesside.

In a further example of Norwegian and UK collaboration, the announcement also comes as pioneering floating offshore windfarm Green Volt announces it has awarded front-end engineering and design contracts to progress the project. Based off the Northeast coast of Scotland, it is the first major commercial floating wind development in Europe, and a joint venture between Norwegian Vårgrønn and UK firm Flotation Energy.

Alongside the new Green Industrial Partnership, the two countries have committed to initiate work to identify gaps and challenges to the development of our common North Sea as a hub for carbon storage and to develop a bilateral agreement or arrangement on cross-border transport of CO2 under the London Protocol.

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