Clean industry

Heat pumps

This industrial heat pump is cheaper to run than a boiler. Yes, really.

Skyven Technologies is making clean steam in a cost-effective way. The tech could boost efforts to decarbonize heavy industry.

By Julian Spector . 13 November 2025
Clean aluminum

Can Australia power its big aluminum smelters with clean energy?

The country is launching subsidies for smelters that use wind and solar power to produce the metal. It’s part of early global efforts to decarbonize heavy industry.

By Maria Gallucci . 12 November 2025
Clean industry

Chart: China leads the race to build green industrial projects

Over 1,000 facilities for making cleaner fuels, chemicals, and building materials are in the works in 70 countries. But China is pulling way ahead on investment.

By Maria Gallucci . 7 November 2025
Hydrogen

In Ohio, hydrogen industry presses on despite federal uncertainty

Trump has pulled billions in funding for hydrogen, a sector that was already on shaky ground. Projects in Ohio are chugging along anyway.

By Kathiann M. Kowalski . 6 November 2025
Clean industry

Boston’s century-old steam heat system is getting a low-carbon makeover

Boston and Cambridge’s decades-old district energy system is being retooled to shift away from gas and toward heat pumps and electric boilers.

By Jeff St. John . 5 November 2025
Green steel

Europe’s flagship green-steel project gets a financial lifeline

French hydrogen investor Hy24 stepped in to help fund Swedish firm Stegra whose plant, if completed, will be the first large-scale steel mill using clean hydrogen.

By Alexander C. Kaufman . 31 October 2025
Green steel

Despite Trump troubles, Hyundai charges ahead with green-steel project

Even after an immigration raid on its Georgia facility and dimmed prospects for hydrogen, Hyundai is committed to its $6B low-carbon steel plant in Louisiana.

By Alexander C. Kaufman . 29 October 2025
Hydrogen

China moves to supercharge green hydrogen as US pulls back

The country's new policy is likely to boost the production of green hydrogen, which the country aims to use to decarbonize airplanes, ships, and heavy industry.

By Alexander C. Kaufman . 28 October 2025
Marine transport

Can cargo shipping stay the course toward cleaner fuels?

Clean-fuel producers and shipowners are in limbo after the International Maritime Organization delayed a decision on a landmark climate rule amid U.S. opposition.

By Maria Gallucci . 22 October 2025
Clean industry

Rondo Energy turns on first major thermal battery — at an oil field

Thermal energy storage can use cheap, clean electricity to decarbonize industry. Rondo’s new project courts a controversial customer to prove it works at scale.

By Jeff St. John . 22 October 2025