Innovating Industrial Decarbonisation: digital technologies enabling the transition
This techUK series explores the role that digital technologies can play in enabling decarbonisation of industrial sectors.
Industrial decarbonisation is critical in global efforts to mitigate climate change. In 2022, industrial emissions were 68 MtCO2e, 17% of UK territorial emissions.
The UK Government set out a 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution back in 2020, highlighting the need to leverage innovation to tackle climate change and grow the UK's green technologies.
Whilst recognising this is only part of the puzzle, this series focuses on developing, adopting, and integrating digital technologies into industrial processes to improve efficiencies, capture data, and optimise supply chains.
Indeed, there is a key role for digital technologies to play in supporting the Government's industrial decarbonisation priorities around: resource and energy efficiency (REEE), fuel switching, CCUS for process emissions and Greenhouse Gas Removals for residual emissions.
techUK works with businesses and stakeholders to develop effective policy and regulatory solutions to promote the digitisation of the economy, driving productivity and shoring up the UK's international competitiveness. We believe digital technologies offer significant opportunities to support this. But collaborative efforts between industry, government, and the tech sector are vital to deliver meaningful and scalable results in the net zero transition.
