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.

Bright Spots

25 bright spots found

  • 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.

  • Ammonia Kakinada, India

    AM Green

    This flagship project demonstrates a pathway for building green ammonia facilities with a pioneering approach to new cross border trading relationships.

  • E-methanol Kassø, Denmark

    European Energy | Kassø

    Kassø, in southern Denmark, is now home to one of the world’s first operational e-methanol facilities, producing 42,000 tonnes per year from a 304 MW solar park, a 52 MW electrolyser and biogenic CO₂ captured from a local biogas facility. It reached FID in January 2022 without operating subsidies and started operations in 2025.

  • Aviation Freedom Pines Fuels, USA

    LanzaJet

    Leading the next generation of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), LanzaJet has opened the world’s first facility to produce SAF from ethanol. It believes that its first mover advantage – and the experience it is gaining in actually running a production facility – will provide valuable lessons for scaling up AtJ (alcohol-to-jet).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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