{"id":208644,"date":"2025-03-13T23:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/low-carbon-fuels-are-a-vital-step-in-the-energy-transition-heres-why"},"modified":"2025-03-13T23:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:08:21","slug":"low-carbon-fuels-are-a-vital-step-in-the-energy-transition-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/low-carbon-fuels-are-a-vital-step-in-the-energy-transition-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"Low-Carbon Fuels Are a Vital Step in the Energy Transition: Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/low-carbon-fuels-are-a-vital-step-in-the-energy-transition-heres-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steelmaking, for example, is considered a hard-to-abate sector due to the extremely high temperatures necessary that can only be reached by burning fuel. However, analyses suggest that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industrytransition.org\/insights\/hard-to-abate-to-net-zero-decarbonizing-steel-by-2050\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the industry could reach net zero by 2050<\/a> with a combination of carbon capture, low-carbon fuels and more efficient steel use. In the short-to medium-term, low-carbon fuels present our best opportunity to press ahead with decarbonizing such hard-to-abate industries.<\/p>\n<p><b>Complementary fuels<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Switching to lower-carbon fuels is among the most economically, politically, and technologically feasible approaches to slowing carbon emissions. It offers a lower-carbon future for newly built infrastructure in East and Southeast Asia, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/the-role-of-low-carbon-fuels-in-the-clean-energy-transitions-of-the-power-sector\/executive-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">could otherwise become stranded assets<\/a> with serious socio-economic consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steelmaking, for example, is considered a hard-to-abate sector due to the extremely high temperatures necessary that can only be reached by burning fuel. However, analyses suggest that the industry could reach net zero by 2050 with a combination of carbon capture, low-carbon fuels and more efficient steel use. In the short-to medium-term, low-carbon fuels present [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}