The industrial sector accounts for more than 30% of the nation’s primary energy use and 30% of its greenhouse gas emissions. Process heating — the application of thermal energy to convert feedstock into interim and finished products — accounts for 63% of all energy use in manufacturing, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

EPIXC (Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon), DOE’s 7th Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute, is a public-private partnership aimed at securing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness in a global economic environment that increasingly demands eliminating carbon emissions by developing the technologies and workforce required to replace fossil fuel-based heating with electric heating.

Our process

EPIXC is a catalyst for overcoming key barriers to the implementation of electric heating in manufacturing processes and aims to reduce manufacturing carbon emissions by advancing electric heating technologies, at a systems level, by reducing the levelized cost of electric heat.

Our mission

Our mission is to develop and scale innovative electric heating concepts for advanced manufacturing to reduce emissions, improve flexibility and enhance the energy efficiency of industrial process heating. Through research, development and demonstration efforts, education and workforce development programs and the creation of new jobs in underrepresented communities, EPIXC will provide cost-effective solutions. These solutions will benefit underserved communities, be scalable, accelerate the US transition to a zero-carbon future and contribute to the goals set by DOE’s Industrial Heat Shot™.