Washington, DC — Yesterday, U.S. Steel announced it will invest nearly $2 billion to build a direct reduced iron (DRI) facility at Big River Steel Works in Osceola, Arkansas. The DRI will provide a cleaner input to feed into the company’s electric arc furnaces that produce steel. Nippon Steel, the parent company of … [continued]
Google Gemini generated this infographic illustrating the economic differences between green iron and green steel production.
The idea of a European green steel premium has become widely accepted over the past several years. It rests on the belief that Europe can decarbonize its steel sector domestically, absorb higher production costs through a mix of policy support and buyer willingness, and maintain industrial competitiveness while doing so. … [continued]
The US startup Boston Metal is bringing its new one-pot green steel process to the global industrial decarbonization movement, along with a process for recovering valuable metals from mining waste.
ChatGPT-generated image of a modern biomass-to-biomethane facility, where organic waste is processed into renewable gas for negative-emission steelmaking pathways
Recent adjustments to my projections for global steel demand through 2100, reflecting a significant slowdown in Chinese infrastructure and cement consumption, have sharpened my economic focus on competing new steelmaking technologies. With lower growth trajectories for steel firmly established, every ton produced in the coming decades will increasingly face stringent … [continued]
The new Mojave Micro Mill near Bakersfield, the first new steel mill built in California in 50 years, will be powered by renewable energy.
The Texas-based startup Utility Global is offering a reactor-based, non-electric, hydrogen-producing blast furnace waste gas conversion system to the global clean steel movement.
An alliance of cleantech businesses and civil society proposes 15 measures to deliver a joint roadmap for Europe’s decarbonisation and competitiveness under the Clean Industrial Deal. This morning, T&E, alongside 15 other organizations, sent key recommendations to the Commission for the Clean Industrial Deal (CID), set for publication on February 26. The … [continued]
The green steel movement is gaining momentum, as demonstrated by a new collaboration between the US startup Electra and the leading global steel trader Interfer Edelstahl Group.
Wind power continues to add megawatts of clean power to the Ukrainian electricity grid, even as Russia continues its drive to demolish the country’s energy infrastructure.
The auto industry can become a lead market for low-carbon steel production in Europe if lawmakers set content requirements. Steel made with green hydrogen and electric arc furnaces, or produced from scrap, can reduce the CO2 emissions of producing cars in Europe by 6.9 Mt in 2030, new analysis shows. That’s … [continued]
