Renewable energy technologies are set to play a key role in ongoing global efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, the manufacture of all these forms of renewable energy, whether tidal, solar,geothermal or wind, requires the use of large amounts of steel.
Steel is critical to the transition to a more sustainable economic model, but the steel industry is a traditionally carbon-intensive industry, so the race to reduce the environmental impact of this important material has begun.
Wind turbine manufacturers and wind farm operators are looking for ways to achieve low-carbon procurement and help create "cleaner" wind power. Low-emission steel offers a way to drastically reduce a project's carbon footprint, and steelmakers are increasingly incorporating renewable energy into their energy mix.
Because wind power helps reduce the use of fossil fuels and the amount of carbon dioxide produced per ton of steel where appropriate, it has the potential to create a "virtuous circle" in which wind-produced steel is further converted into renewable energy. Renewable energy transition.
