Steelmakers must divide their attention between production yield, product quality, cost, and energy and sustainability efficiency. As the pressure for decarbonization and energy transition increases along with the pervasive pressure to reduce costs, energy efficiency initiatives can offer steelmakers improved performance for their existing assets.

Identifying which energy efficiency initiatives to execute is no simple task. Neither is evaluating changes and additions to equipment and raw materials. The Viridis services team provides a site-wide assessment to map and analyze energy and resource consumption and emissions for each process, defining and quantifying scenarios for potential energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction initiatives. Analyses consider standard operational procedures, basic maintenance, KPIs evaluation, best-available practices, best-available technologies, and benchmark processes to find golden batch configurations. Finally, a set of efficiency initiatives is identified, analyzed, and quantified, resulting in a roadmap that steelmakers may use to support their investments and execution.