100 per cent Renewables for Energy-Intensive Industry (EII)

Representatives from industry and science discussed challenges and possible solutions for energy-intensive industry on its way to climate neutrality at TU Graz. Pictured ( left to right ): Stefan Stolitzka, President of the Styrian organisation of the Federation of Austrian Industries, Rainer Janssen, President EUREC - Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centers and Managing Director WIP Renewable Energies, Brigitte Hasewend, Director ESEIA and Harald Kainz, Rector of TU Graz and President ESEIA. Source: Foto Fischer By Barbara Gigler - Energy-intensive industries (EIIs) must drastically reduce their dependence on fossil fuels if the EU is to be climate neutral by 2050. A consortium consisting of representatives from industry, interest groups and science present solutions on how to switch to 100 per cent renewable energies. The steel, chemical, pulp and paper and cement industries - subsumed under the term energy-intensive industry or EII - have a key role to play on the path to climate neutrality by 2050. currently accounts for half of the energy consumption of all industry and, due to its energy-intensive production processes, is responsible for 14 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions in the. The -funded multinational and multi-sectoral research project RE4Industry - 100% Renewable Energies for Energy Intensive Industries - is developing scenarios and solutions on how EIIs can make a smooth and safe transition to 100% renewable energies in production processes and facilities.