U.S. Department of Energy recently announced its Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap, which identifies four pathways to reduce industrial emissions in American manufacturing.
The roadmap, which emphasizes the importance cutting carbon emissions and pollution, was announced in a Sept. 7 news release. It includes a research, development and demonstration plan for industry and government.
"America’s industrial sector is critical to our economy and daily lives, yet it currently accounts for an enormous portion of greenhouse gas emissions, and is particularly difficult to decarbonize," Granholm said in the release. “DOE’s Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap will help put the nation on the path to achieving President Biden’s agenda of a cleaner industrial sector that benefits workers and revitalizes communities, while providing a healthier environment for all Americans.”
The four pathways outlined in the roadmap are energy efficiency; industrial electrification; low carbon fuels, feedstocks and energy sources; and carbon capture, utilization and storage, according to the release.
"Four pathways, one clean energy future," Department of Energy said in a Sept. 7 post on Twitter. "Our new Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap lays out how to use clean energy innovations to reduce emissions in America's manufacturing, and our $104M in funding will help advance the technologies needed to do this."
Additionally, a $104 million funding opportunity to advance industrial decarbonization technologies was announced, the release reported.
“The new Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap and funding opportunity couldn’t come at a better time, building on the historic funding in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and ensuring the clean energy economy is made in America,” White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy said in the release. “Building a cleaner, more prosperous future requires harnessing American innovation and ingenuity and investing in our workforce while reducing pollution burdens on fenceline communities. That’s what President Biden has been committed to since day one, and that’s what we’re doing today.”
