New technologies upend conventional wisdom that heavy industry — cement, steel, petrochemicals — will be hard to abate or require carbon capture. But how fast can they scale?

The U.S. Department of Energy announced $24 million in grants to support the development of next-generation concentrating solar-thermal power technology.

Decarbonizing heavy industry was a key theme at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum, where global leaders discussed slashing those hardest-to-slash emissions.