Climate Change: Electrification of Industrial Processes Based on Renewable Technologies May Offer Greater Potential for CO2 Emissions Reduction - Report

Renewable Energy for Industry (International Energy Agency)

From green energy to green materials and fuels

This report considers a variety of current and forthcoming options to increase the uptake of renewables as one possible way to reduce industry sector energy and process carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Electrification of industrial processes, if based on renewable technologies, may offer greater potential for CO2 emissions reductions. This would entail continued electrification of energy for motion and force, still far from being completed, and electrification of heat and steam production via a series of technologies.

This report reveals the promises, but also the limits, of direct industrial uses of renewable heat (solar, geothermal) or biomass. Renewable electricity has much greater potential, directly or through the formation of synthetic fuels or hydrogen-carriers – hydrogen being used in industry as feedstock, process agent or energy.

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