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The UC Berkeley analysis should be welcome news for a manufacturing industry that is heavily reliant on natural gas, said Jose Dominguez, one of the report’s authors.
Published July 23, 2026
A slab of steel, 8 inches thick, is heated before being rolled into a coil of steel at the NLMK Indiana steel mill on March 15, 2018, in Portage, Ind. Local wind and solar paired with industrial geothermal and storage could economically supply up to one-third of industrial heat demand in the United States by 2035, according to a paper from University of California, Berkeley researchers.
