New study: direct electrification of process heat up to 500°C can reduce German industry’s fossil gas demand by 90 TWh which is 3/4 of its required gas savings under REPowerEU. Read how a rapid industrial heat transition contributes to #climateaction & #energysecurity. 🧵 1/7 
The #industrialsector is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter in Germany. #Heatpumps & #electricboilers can reduce industrial CO2 emissions by 12.5 Mt by 2030. This reduction equals 18 % of the German sectoral target. 2/7
With around 12 bn € investments needed until 2030 the #heattransition comes at comparably low cost: It is a fraction of what the German government plans to spend on protecting industry from high gas prices. 3/7
Heat pumps & electric boilers are the foundation of direct electrification & can make industrial electricity consumption more flexible > flexibilities in power demand are crucial to meet high renewables shares & the gov’s target of 80 % renewables in the #powersystem by 2030. 4/7
Direct electrification reduces GHG emissions and natural gas demand, lowers the dependency on Russia’s #fossilfuels & supports the expansion and integration of #renewables via flexible power consumption. 5/7
Key measures to drive the transition: 1) no more fossil process heat below 500°C by 2035, 2) grid charge reform, 3) support programme to address investment risks & cost gap, 4) ramp-up of industrial heat pumps & electric boilers 5) end privileges for fossil technologies. 6/7
The impulse paper "Power-2-Heat: Natural gas savings and climate protection in industry" can be downloaded on our website: bit.ly/3hKaC7J 7/7
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