Industrial firms produce all the materials and products we rely on every day, ranging from raw steel and cement to finished buildings, vehicles, and consumer goods. In doing so, the industrial sector consumed 43 percent of the world’s final energy in 2020. To meet ambitious climate goals, nations will need to transition industry to low- or zero-emissions processes.
Energy Innovation has created the Industrial Zero Emissions Calculator (IZEC) for you to test different strategies to reduce industrial emissions and explore their resource requirements. The IZEC is an easy-to-use, customizable tool to assess the demands of different industrial zero emissions strategies. The IZEC incorporates publicly available data to model five regions: the U.S., China, European Union, India, and the world as a whole. You can choose the energy sources used for industrial heat, specify energy and material efficiency improvements, determine methods of forming chemical feedstocks, and more.
This report details assumptions behind the tool and walks through the tool’s main results for the U.S.