Fusion for Heavy Industry

Steel, cement, and chemicals need vast firm heat and power — among the hardest emissions to abate. Firm fusion, co-locating clean heat and electricity, is a route to decarbonizing them.

Need

Vast firm heat + power

Emissions

Among the hardest to abate

Fusion offer

Firm clean heat + electricity, on-site

Sectors

Steel, cement, chemicals

Heavy industry — steelmaking, cement, and bulk chemicals — is one of the toughest emissions problems in the economy. These processes need enormous quantities of firm, high-grade heat and power, run continuously, often at temperatures electricity struggles to reach cheaply. Intermittent renewables are a poor fit.

Firm fusion power addresses the core difficulty. A plant can supply both continuous clean electricity and high-grade process heat, co-located with an industrial site thanks to fusion's siting flexibility and lack of an evacuation zone. For electrified processes (electric arc steelmaking, electrochemistry) it provides the firm power; for heat-driven ones it can provide the heat.

Decarbonizing heavy industry is widely regarded as one of the last and hardest pieces of the energy transition — and firm, clean, co-located heat and power is much of what it's missing. See fusion & the electrification of everything.