BRIGHT SPOTS

Spotlight on clean industry pioneers 

We are on the cusp of a clean industrial revolution.

Around 1000 clean industrial projects span the global pipeline of the world’s most energy-intensive sectors and more than 80 plants are already operating worldwide, producing essential clean materials, chemicals and fuels. These are bright spots. Each one helps improve technology, drive down costs and build confidence, moving us toward our clean industrial future.

Steel
Linyi, China

CISRI Linyi

CISRI's Linyi project is an industrial-scale pure-hydrogen direct reduced iron (DRI) plant in Shandong, China — a world-first demonstration proving near-zero-carbon steelmaking and already seeding a wave of commercial-scale green steel projects.

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Ammonia
Kakinada, India

AM Green

Full Bright Spot profile coming soon.

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E-methanol
Kassø, Denmark

European Energy

Full Bright Spot profile coming soon.

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Aviation
Freedom Pines Fuels, USA

LanzaJet

Full Bright Spot profile coming soon.

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Aluminium
Yunnan Province, China

China Hongqiao Group

China Hongqiao Group is moving over 60% of its aluminium production from coal-based Shandong to renewables-rich Yunnan Province to accelerate its major decarbonisation strategy.

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Cement
Milaki, Greece

Holcim OLYMPUS

Holcim's €400M OLYMPUS project in Greece is building a direct source-to-sink CCS value chain in the Mediterranean to capture 1 Mtpa of CO2 from an isolated cement plant.

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Chemicals, ammonia
Chifeng, China

Envision

Green hydrogen and ammonia are essential for the transformation to clean industry and the Chifeng Green Hydrogen Net Zero Industrial Park is leading the way.

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Chemicals, ammonia
Victoria, Texas

First Ammonia

First Ammonia is building a 250 kt/y green ammonia project in Texas as a replicable model, securing early offtake and demonstrating competitive commercial viability.

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Chemicals, ammonia
Singapore

ITOCHU Singapore Ammonia Bunkering Initiative

ITOCHU’s Singapore Ammonia Bunkering project is driving forward the use of clean ammonia as a marine fuel

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Chemicals, ammonia
Villeta, Paraguay

ATOME Villeta

Building Latin America’s first industrial-scale low-carbon fertiliser plant, ATOME Villeta will use Paraguay's hydropower to produce green CAN fertiliser with a 10-year Yara offtake.

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Chemicals, methanol
Jiangsu Province, China

LONGi Green Methanol

LONGi is transforming agricultural waste into low-carbon methanol at its Lianyungang project

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Chemicals, methanol
Tarragona, Spain

Repsol Ecoplanta

Repsol Ecoplanta is turning waste into renewable methanol at Europe’s first circular commercial plant, demonstrating a new model for chemicals and fuels.

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Steel
Boden, Sweden

Stegra

Stegra is transforming the future of low-carbon steel production with its hydrogen-powered facility in Boden, Sweden.

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Steel
Duqm, Rayong

Meranti Green Steel

Meranti Green Steel is spearheading green steel development in Asia-Pacific.

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Aviation
Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Neste

Neste sees sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as a key lever to decarbonise the aviation industry, with significant expansion planned for its Netherlands facility.

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Aviation
Prahova County, Romania

OMV Petrom

OMV Petrom is building Romania’s first large-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel facility at Petrobrazi refinery.

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Aviation
Pecos, Texas

Infinium Roadrunner

From Pathfinder to Roadrunner: Infinium is scaling up the future of clean aviation fuels by building the world's largest eSAF facility in Texas, using a replicable blueprint.

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Aviation
Port of Rauma, Finland

Norsk e-Fuel

Norsk e-Fuel is building one of Europe’s first large-scale power-to-liquid plants, designed to produce around 80,000 tonnes of e-fuels (of which about 80% will be SAF) each year at the Port of Rauma in Finland.

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Aviation
Immingham, United Kingdom

Velocys’ Altalto

From First-of-a-Kind to future-proof, Velocys' Altalto is converting municipal waste into 23 ktpa of SAF in the UK, using a modular design for global growth.

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Aviation
Bahia, Brazil

Acelen Renewables

The company is establishing a $3 billion "seed to fuel" project in Brazil to produce up to 1 billion litres of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) yearly from the native macaúba fruit.

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Aluminium
Dunkirk, France

Aluminium Dunkerque

Aluminium Dunkerque is combining recycling, carbon capture, and inert anode technology to set a new benchmark for sustainable aluminium production in Europe.

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