High fossil fuel prices mean UK cannot delay transition to low emissions steel

By Clare Richardson-Barlow, Research Fellow in Industrial Decarbonisation, University of Leeds
Andrew Pimm, Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds
Pepa Ambrosio-Albala, Research Fellow in Chemical Engineering, University of Leeds

Steel is essential for making many of the technologies that will end fossil fuel combustion, including electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels. Unfortunately, to produce a lot of steel, manufacturers need to burn a lot of fossil fuel.

Steel production accounted for 2% of the UK’s emissions in 2019 and ranks second…

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