Hydrogen stocks rally after halving in 2022

Shares in listed hydrogen companies see strong weekly gains at beginning of the year

Shares in listed hydrogen companies have seen a strong start to 2023 after struggling over the past year amid a wider downturn in technology stocks. Stock markets have generally turned higher recently but energy storage stocks have been the best performing basket of listed companies for Danish online brokerage Saxo over the past week, according to a note published by Saxo’s head of equity strategy, Peter Garnry. Especially strong weekly gains have been seen for hydrogen and fuel-cell firms such as Plug Power (22.7pc), Bloom Energy (14.6pc), Ballard Power Systems (20.7pc), Nel (13.9pc) and Fuelcell Energy (13.9pc), although ITM saw a fall of 1pc. "This industry has seen quite some big orders