Workgroup 4
Green Steel and Cement - Industrial Use Case
Global Trends
The steel sector has been leveraging hydrogen to decarbonise the steel making process and is expected to be one of the earliest sectors to drive hydrogen commercialisation. In addition to sector-specific policy and funding support, steel majors incorporating hydrogen in the steel making process will also have to work closely with other sectors and the H2@Scale Workgroup 3, members to ensure that steel clusters are well supported in terms of renewable energy access and availability, as well as links with other parts of the hydrogen value-chains so that the steel industry can benefit from economies of scale.
Replacing thermal and natural gas with renewable hydrogen will help drive decarbonisation in steel and cements sectors. A number of hydrogen projects by steel majors as well as industry consortia are currently underway in Europe.
IH2A Position
IH2A is collaborating with the steel industry as well as the steel sector policy makers to articulate a decarbonisation pathway for increasing hydrogen use in steelmaking. IH2A expects steel and cement industrial clusters to be hydrogen early adopters, as part of their decarbonisation plans, with potentially distributed models. Industrial plants and clusters with proximity to renewable energy sources can be hydrogen offtakers if supported with incentives, integrated hydrogen production facilities and locally available hydrogen infrastructure.
IH2A recommends that a Bharat H2 Industrial Group, bringing together sectoral ministries and industry leaders should be constituted to identify common set of fiscal incentives, consortia structures and hydrogen commercialisation processes for identified plants/clusters that choose to take lead on early hydrogen adoption. This would help establish hydrogen adoption pathways in Green Steel and Cement sectors.
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