Industry

From cardboard boxes delivered to our doors to home appliances, nearly everything comes from industrial processes. Those processes use a lot of energy, and largely all the energy is provided by fossil fuels – approximately one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. Electrification is a key route to industrial emissions reductions by replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives. Recent analysis using Energy Innovation’s Energy Policy Simulator showed that electrification could reduce industrial emissions while growing the economy and creating jobs – policies will be key to unlocking electrification’s full industrial sector decarbonization potential in coming decades.