CIC energiGUNE, a leading Basque research center in electrochemical energy storage and conversion and thermal energy storage and conversion, will hold the TEDS24 conference on November 20 at the Vitoria-Gasteiz Campus of the Euskadi Technology Park, which will bring together creators of ideas, industry professionals and institutional leaders to promote industrial decarbonization with the aim of meeting the 2030 objectives. The event is part of the development of the LIFE HI4S, project, coordinated by CIC energiGUNE and funded by the EU through its LIFE program.
“It is a unique opportunity to learn about the latest technological advances, as well as to know where the market and future strategies will go in the field of decarbonization of industrial thermal energy, especially at medium and high temperatures,” said Daniel Bielsa, Technology Coordinator at CIC energiGUNE. Attendance at the conference is free of charge, subject to registration.
In this sense, from the Basque center have recalled that, in addition to the professional day, attendees will have the opportunity to visit the facilities of ArcelorMittal in Sestao on November 21, where the LIFE HI4S prototype plant has been built for the combined production of heat and electricity that allows the steel industry to reduce energy consumption by reusing waste heat from furnaces.
The TEDS24 program includes panel discussions, presentations and analysis on policy formulation and cutting-edge technologies such as electrification of heat, solar thermal, thermal power quality improvement, waste heat recovery and other novel market opportunities. In addition, there will be a space for presentations of success stories, as well as a visit to the CIC energiGUNE facilities.
Through this event, attendees will be able not only to gain knowledge directly from industry leaders and experts on decarbonization, but also to learn about the most effective tools available and establish contacts with potential partners and solution providers in order to accelerate the pace of their thermal decarbonization projects.
Coordinated by CIC energiGUNE, the LIFE HI4S consortium includes six other partners: ArcelorMittal, Fivemasa, Enerbasque, LifeCycleEngineering-LCE, SDEA Solutions and Azterlan. As a whole, the project foresees the generation of substantial environmental impacts, such as the reduction of CO2 emissions from the steelworks by 9 Tm/year (which would represent 6% of the total emissions of the steel industry), or the reduction of by-products, black slag, by 560,000 t/year (10-15% of the total generated in the EU). As a consequence, the reduction in energy consumption would mean 200 M€/year of emission savings, and the energy recovered (37.5 GWh/year) could mean a 4.9% saving in the electric arc furnace´s electricity consumption.
