Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation and System Transition in Indian industry

The 'harder-to-abate' industrial sectors particularly face greater challenges in decarbonisation owing to their high-temperature heat requirements and/or non-energy emissions from the production process (e.g. in cement production). Current decarbonisation technologies associated with these processes are at a globally budding stage of development and hence require significant coordinated efforts to increase deployment. In the Indian context, these sectors include iron & steel and cement. Options to reduce emissions in these industries include energy efficiency, increased diffusion & demand management and deployment of sector-specific decarbonisation technologies, such as green hydrogen, at scale.

The workshop presented findings on decarbonization pathways for the harder-to-abate Indian industry sectors based on modelling efforts by various organizations. This will be followed by an expert panel to reflect on the findings. The workshop aims to shed light on the emission reduction potential of interventions such as energy efficiency, green hydrogen, and increased circularity and demand reduction in key industrial sub-sectors such as steel. It will reflect on the opportunities and challenges associated with their uptake at scale, such as access to technology and finance and the impact of emerging international regulations like Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).