ArcelorMittal has announced that its Sestao plant in Spain will become a full-scale zero carbon-emissions steel plant through the use of green hydrogen and renewable electricity as part of a ?,?50 million ($59 million) investment.
The elimination of scope 1 and 2 emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol will be done by changing the metallic input via increasing the proportion of recycled scrap, and the use of direct-reduced iron (DRI) - produced using green hydrogen - in its two existing electric-arc furnaces (EAF)s.This follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Spain to construct a 2.3 million tonnes per year green hydrogen DRI...