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EU climate targets: How industries are to use heat pumps and waste heat to achieve them

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Published: December 11th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Efficient use of process heat becomes more important: beer bottles in a bottling plant in Gemünd.
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Without more efficient use of industrial process heat, the European climate targets can hardly be achieved. This is because the main source of emissions in the industrial sector is the combustion of fossil fuels – primarily gas – to generate heat in production processes for food, paper, chemicals, steel and cement. According to a report published this Thursday by the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) think tank, significant greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided by electrifying industrial processes.

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Forschung Energy Industrial policy Dekarbonisierung Climate & Environment