According to the Department of Energy, the industrial sector accounted for 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2019

The Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre will be tasked with identifying and researching opportunities to reduce costs, risks, timescales and emissions

The new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy sets the vision for the world’s first low carbon industrial sector, slashing emissions by two-thirds in just 15 years

It is looking for ad-hoc solutions for factories, such as improving the efficiency of the energy used while reducing carbon emissions ‘in a sustainable and cost-effective manner’

Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer from Heriot-Watt University will work with academics, industry and policymakers to develop a proposal for the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC)

If half of the businesses in the sector adopted technologies like solar and battery storage, the savings would total at least £540m annually

The Carbon Trust is to run the government’s new £9.2 million industrial energy efficiency initiative. The four-year Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator (IEEA) aims to lower costs and increase the number of available energy efficient technologies for a range of industrial sectors, through demonstration of near to market innovations. Co-funding of between £150,000 and £1 million […]