DOE Floats ‘Roadmap’ For Decarbonizing Key Manufacturing Sectors

The Department of Energy (DOE) is floating a major new “roadmap” for decarbonizing the industrial sector, arguing various types of manufacturing could employ energy efficiency, electrification, low-carbon hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) to sharply cut carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades. The Sept. 7 report to Congress outlines a broad plan to move the industrial sector -- which accounts for a third of national greenhouse gas emissions and is generally considered one of the more challenging to...