Industrial electrification involves switching industries that currently power their operations with on-site fossil fuel combustion to electricity. Many facilities use fossil fuels to power their industrial activities, often to generate industrial heat for processes such as washing, rinsing, drying, distillation, melting glass, smelting iron into steel and the calcination of limestone for cement production. Some of these activities can already be replaced by equipment that uses electricity rather than burning fossil fuels. With additional research, there is an expectation that the vast majority of the world’s industrial processes could be switched to electricity. Where full electrification is not currently possible, it is also possible to develop hybrid systems that dramatically reduce the reliance on fossil fuels for industrial processes.

When you take this action, increase your Energy Demand by 1 and remove 1 Industry Emissions token from your player board.
You may take this action once per Society tag in this card's stack each round.

• Unlocking opportunities from industrial electrification (McKinsey Insights)

• Electrification in industrials (Deloitte Insights)

• Support policies that require or encourage industry (or individual industries) to electrify

• Join, or spend some time with, or support an organization or local group that is pushing for the electrification of industry.

• Advocate for research that could lead to technologies to reduce reliance on fossil fuels for industrial processes.