Full Title: Texas Gulf Coast Clean Industrial Hub
Author(s): Rocky Mountain Institute
Publisher(s): Rocky Mountain Institute
Publication Date: March 7, 2025
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Description (excerpt):
Texas has an opportunity to lead the new era of clean industrial development.
Texas has a long history of energy leadership. The state’s decarbonization journey began two decades ago with early investments in renewable energy leading Texas to be the number one producer of wind power in the United States. Looking to the future, Texas is forecasted to produce 50 percent of the clean hydrogen that will be made in the United States by 2050. In addition to climate benefits, clean industries in Texas can create more than half a million jobs and spur $100 billion in investments in the state by 2050. Clean industrial projects, including clean hydrogen and derivates, is the next frontier for economic, energy, and climate leadership.
Existing industry and heavy transport in Texas, which includes cement, steel, aluminum, chemicals, aviation, shipping, and heavy-duty trucking, accounts for 23 percent of US industrial greenhouse gas emissions, the highest of any state. Meeting our collective global climate goals requires building more than 700 net-zero industrial projects by 2030 and purchasing 7 million zero-emissions trucks by 2030. Most of these projects will occur in regional industrial hubs where the physical, social, regulatory and economic infrastructure is already in place to support rapid scale up — places like Texas.
That’s why RMI and the Mission Possible Partnership, in collaboration with the Bezos Earth Fund, are working to create a clean industrial hub in Texas that accelerates production of clean fuels, like sustainable aviation fuels and clean hydrogen, and advances net-zero projects to secure a clean industrial future and continued economic growth for the aviation, chemicals, cement, shipping, and steel sectors in the region.