Clean Industrial Hubs

What is a clean industrial hub?

Clean industrial hubs bring together project developers, policymakers, financial institutions, and community-based organisations to support regional clusters of industrial decarbonisation projects.

Showing the possible in the US and beyond

Mission Possible Partnership and RMI, in collaboration with the Bezos Earth Fund, are accelerating clean industrial hub development in the US by facilitating the enabling conditions and helping projects reach their greatest potential to reduce emissions and provide community benefits. Crucial to the industrial transition and decarbonisation projects, hubs concentrate opportunity and distribute risk. 

Decarbonisation Projects First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) and Nth-of-a-Kind (NOAK) decarbonisation projects across industry heavy transport, and clean energy sectors. 

Ecosystem A strong foundation of policy, finance, research, and community engagement to improve outcomes and accelerate progress of FOAK/NOAK projects and other efforts needed for industrial decarbonisation.

Connective Infrastructure Safe, efficient, and resilient methods to deliver clean energy from producers to consumers.

A regionalised approach

Our regional-based approach brings together industrial assets with social infrastructure and our support model concentrates efforts in a defined geographical region through (1) supporting project developers on decarbonisation projects combined with (2) building an overall ecosystem of policy, finance, infrastructure, and community engagement to improve outcomes and accelerate progress.

A hubs approach ensures replicability of projects at sufficient scale and provides a framework for similar interconnected initiatives in future and additional geographies. The approach also ensures focused attention from regulators, communities, and broader civil society on the coordinated development of individual projects needed to make a hub successful.

We’re starting in California and the Texas Gulf Coast

To spur progress and learnings, a team co-staffed and co-led by Mission Possible Partnership and RMI supported the acceleration of clean industrial hub development in Southern California and the Texas Gulf Coast. 
Clean Industrial Hubs  |  Feb 24, 2025

California Clean Industrial Hub

In Southern California, our team works on heavy transportation and ports decarbonisation, cement plant decarbonisation, and industrial electrification. Learn more ▶  
Clean Industrial Hubs  |  Feb 24, 2025

Texas Gulf Coast Clean Industrial Hub

In Texas our work focuses on production and adoption of clean hydrogen and its derivatives to enable decarbonisation in the shipping, steel, and aviation sectors. Learn more ▶  

Insights & Resources

Find out more about what we’re doing in US hubs

Hubs Insights  |  Decarbonisation Projects  |  Jan 31, 2025

How electric truck fleets can save money with smarter charging, solar power, and batteries

Managed charging and distributed energy resources can save fleets up to 30 percent in electricity bills while reducing the time for grid connections.
Hubs Insights  |  Ecosystem  |  Jan 16, 2025

What other states can learn from California’s journey to 150,000 EV chargers

New analysis explores California’s successes and challenges in its efforts to reform permitting processes for truck depots.
Hubs Insights  |  Ecosystem & Connective Infrastructure  |  Jan 16, 2025

How to prepare the grid for electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks: Lessons from Los Angeles

New data shows how fleets, utilities, local government, and charging providers can prepare the grid for increased power demand from electric trucks.
Hubs Insights  |  Ecosystem  |  Jan 2, 2025

Easing the permitting process for Clean Industrial Projects in California

The industrial permitting process in California remains long and complicated. This memo outlines key challenges and solutions.
Hubs Insights  |  Ecosystem  |  Dec 16, 2024

Four ways to jump-start clean hydrogen finance in 2025

A “hydrogen finance roadshow” highlighted five expectation gaps between developers and financial institutions — as well as four market-based ways to bridge them.

Hubs Insights  |  Ecosystem & Connective Infrastructure  |  Nov 20, 2024

To connect or not to connect: Demystifying hydrogen power procurement options, risks, and opportunities

As the deadline for final tax credit guidance approaches, the real work of project development begins
Report  | Ecosystem, Decarbonisation & Connective Infrastructure | Oct 21, 2024

Capturing the benefits of industrial decarbonisation for Houston and beyond

Understanding and quantifying the economic growth and emissions reduction benefits of industrial decarbonisation to the Houston region.
Report  |  Ecosystem, Decarbonisation & Connective Infrastructure  |  Sept 26, 2024

Unlocking green industrial growth: Insight briefing

Five key insights from our clean industrial hubs in California and Texas which concentrate opportunity and distribute risk.
Hubs Insights  |  Decarbonisation  |  Sept 17, 2024

Unravelling willingness to pay for sustainable aviation fuel

A recent RMI survey shows airlines, logistics service providers, and corporate customers are willing to pay a green premium for SAF and SAFc and express preference for shorter contracts and waste-based feedstock.
Hubs Insights  |  Ecosystem  |  Jul 10, 2024

The time is now for zero-emissions cargo handling equipment at America’s busiest cargo ports

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach handle nearly 40 percent of US shipping container traffic; decarbonising the equipment that handles these containers needs to begin now.
Hubs Insights  |  Decarbonisation  |  Mar 28, 2024

The case for placing drayage truck chargers away from ports

Installing drayage truck chargers further away from ports can benefit fleets’ bottom line and operations, avoid grid bottlenecks, and reduce port congestion.

Contact our hubs team

Interested in technical assistance? Advancing decarbonisation pathways for ports and existing industrial facilities, adoption of clean hydrogen? Or do you need help in plotting the impact of industrial electrification on local infrastructure? Contact our Hubs team for help with this and more. 

About RMI, our US Hubs partner

RMI, founded in 1982 as Rocky Mountain Institute, is an independent nonprofit that transforms global energy systems through market-driven solutions to align with a 1.5°C future and secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all. RMI works in the world’s most critical geographies and engage businesses, policymakers, communities, and NGOs to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut climate pollution by at least 50 percent by 2030. RMI has offices in Basalt and Boulder, Colorado; New York City; Oakland, California; Washington, D.C.; Abuja, Nigeria; and Beijing.

 

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