Nel ASA

Share Issue/Capital Change • Oct 21, 2022

Nel ASA: Exercise of employee share options and issue of shares

Nel ASA: Exercise of employee share options and issue of shares

(Oslo, 21 October 2022) Nel ASA (the Company) today has resolved, in accordance

with the authorization granted by the extraordinary general meeting on 2 August

2022, to issue 34,200 new shares to fulfil the Company's obligations in the

groupwide share option program comprising all employees in Nel fulfilling

certain criteria, specified in the Company's annual report (note 2.5), thereby

increasing the Company's share capital by NOK 6,840. In total 2 employees in the

group exercised options at the strike price of NOK 7.80. The options were

granted in 2019.

ENDS

For further information, please contact:

Kjell Christian Gyllensten Bjørnsen, CFO, +47 917 02?097

Wilhelm Flinder, Head of Investor Relations, +47 936 11 350

About Nel ASA | www.nelhydrogen.com

Nel is a global, dedicated hydrogen company, delivering optimal solutions to

produce, store, and distribute hydrogen from renewable energy. We serve

industries, energy, and gas companies with leading hydrogen technology. Our

roots date back to 1927, and since then, we have had a proud history of

development and continuous improvement of hydrogen technologies. Today, our

solutions cover the entire value chain: from hydrogen production technologies to

hydrogen fueling stations, enabling industries to transition to green hydrogen,

and providing fuel cell electric vehicles with the same fast fueling and long

range as fossil-fueled vehicles - without the emissions.

This information is subject to a duty of disclosure pursuant to Section 5-12 of

the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. This information was issued as inside

information pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation, and was published by

Wilhelm Finder, Head of Investor Relations, at NEL ASA on the date and time

provided.