Clean industry

Chart: Heavy industry is the world’s biggest decarbonization challenge

The production of oil and gas, cement, steel, and other industrial products is enormously polluting. Decarbonizing these sectors will take a while.

By Dan McCarthy . 25 October 2024

Nuclear

Nucor bets on silver bullet for ‘green’ steel: Nuclear fusion

The steelmaking giant said Helion Energy would build a fusion reactor by 2030 at one of Nucor’s steel plants. But fusion is still more dream than reality.

By Eric Wesoff . 3 October 2023
Clean industry

Startup hits milestone in its bid to cut concrete’s dirtiest ingredient

Demand for clean concrete is rising. CarbonBuilt says it has a potential solution: concrete made without using any Portland cement.

By Maria Gallucci . 21 September 2023
Clean industry

Major steel users band together to place first big ‘green steel’ order

Microsoft, Trammell Crow, Nextracker and other companies will request 2 million tons of “near-zero-emissions” steel in push to help U.S. steelmakers decarbonize.

By Maria Gallucci . 20 September 2023
Clean industry

Terra CO2 says its Texas factory will cut carbon and cost from cement

The startup is building its first large-scale plant to turn common rocks into cement additives that can reduce cement's hefty carbon footprint without raising costs.

By Jeff St. John . 12 September 2023
Clean industry

The world's largest low-carbon steel plant moves closer to completion

H2 Green Steel’s new $1.6 billion investment puts its hydrogen-fueled plant on track to open in 2025, in what would be a first for the hard-to-decarbonize industry.

By Jeff St. John . 8 September 2023
Clean industry

Boston Metal gets big funding boost to make green steel

Steel is a heavily polluting, hard-to-decarbonize and vital industry. The startup’s $262 million in Series C funding will help it tackle that problem.

By Maria Gallucci . 7 September 2023
Clean industry

New California rule will cut carbon from baking Cheetos, chips and more

Commercial food manufacturers use a lot of fossil gas. A first-of-its-kind rule in greater Los Angeles will start to change that in 2027.

By Maria Gallucci . 8 August 2023
Long-duration energy storage

Is Azelio's abrupt bankruptcy a bad omen for long-duration energy storage?

Many say long-duration storage is the energy transition's holy grail, but startups in the space are staring down brutally tough market conditions.

By Eric Wesoff . 3 August 2023
Energy storage

Industrial heat startup Rondo to open world’s largest battery factory

Rondo uses clean energy to heat a special brick made from a centuries-old recipe, then uses the stored heat to help decarbonize energy-intensive industry.

By Julian Spector . 27 June 2023
Heat pumps

Steam made by heat pumps can help clean up industry and manufacturing

Startup AtmosZero wants to make all-electric, high-efficiency heat pumps the technology of choice for industrial heat.

By Jeff St. John . 27 June 2023