Transforming the foundations of the global economy.
Transforming the foundations of the global economy. This section brings together GCS reporting and analysis across the places, institutions and systems where action is taking shape.
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Explore how the Singapore–Australia Green and Digital Shipping Corridor accelerates maritime decarbonization and port digitalization.
Green hydrogen systems enable industrial decarbonization by supplying clean molecules for fuels, chemicals, and heavy transport at scale.
Explore how green hydrogen is enabling deep decarbonization across industry, transport, and energy systems in the global clean energy transition.
Manufacturers face an unforgiving energy transition: reduce emissions without sacrificing output, product quality, safety, reliability, or competitiveness. Renewable Energy for Manufacturing turns that tension into a practical decision framework for industrial leaders. Rather than presenting a single technology as the answer, Robert C. Brears shows how to build a sequenced transition around the realities of each plant—its loads, process-heat requirements, assets, contracts, risks, and investment constraints. Readers will see how energy efficiency can reduce the scale of the challenge; how to evaluate renewable electricity, on-site generation, electrification, renewable fuels, storage, and flexibility; and how to translate technical options into resilient business cases. The book also examines financing, supply chains, industrial competitiveness, and the governance needed to adapt as technologies, markets, and operating conditions change. For manufacturing executives, engineers, and energy and sustainability professionals, this is a disciplined guide to deciding what to do first, what to defer, and how to move from ambition to an investable renewable-energy strategy.
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