EMSTEEL Group has become the first steelmaker in the region to utilize certified clean nuclear energy, strengthening its long-standing partnership with Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC).
By integrating more than 1.4 million MWh of clean nuclear electricity from the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, EMSTEEL now operates with 86 percent clean electricity across steel operations and 14 percent across cement production.
The Clean Energy Certificates Program demonstrates how nuclear energy is enabling clean manufacturing and strengthening the UAE’s position as a global leader in sustainable industrial growth, advancing TrueGreen, EMSTEEL’s strategic sustainability identity that unifies its decades of decarbonization initiatives.
This progress builds on a decade-long partnership between EMSTEEL and ENEC. During the construction of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, the first multi-unit operational nuclear energy plant in the MENA region, EMSTEEL supplied 160,000 tons of nuclear-grade rebar, meeting 60 percent of the project’s total rebar requirements.
The purchase of the nuclear-generated Clean Energy Certificates enables EMSTEEL to access low-carbon electricity, thereby directly lowering Scope 2 emissions and reducing the overall carbon footprint of steel produced in the UAE. It also positions EMSTEEL as the first regional steelmaker to utilize Clean Energy Certificates from nuclear energy, highlighting innovation and accountability across one of the world’s hardest-to-abate sectors.
Eng. Saeed Ghumran Al Remeithi Group CEO – EMSTEEL
“Clean energy, technology enablement, and verified data are central to credible industrial decarbonization. Through TrueGreen, we are integrating these principles into every aspect of our operations. This synergy with ENEC strengthens our clean energy portfolio and supports our long-term strategy to scale low-carbon steel production. It reflects how national partnerships can accelerate industrial transformation and position the UAE as a global leader in sustainable manufacturing.”
His Excellency Mohamed Al Hammadi, Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of ENEC, said that, “Pairing ENEC’s carbon-free baseload electricity with EMSTEEL’s continuous industrial load demand shows what the energy transition looks like in practice: clean power at industrial scale, delivered with traceable certificates while in parallel ensuring grid reliability. This collaboration turns a decade of partnership into a repeatable model for hard-to-abate sectors, lowering Scope 2 emissions today while strengthening competitiveness and supply-chain certainty.”
The agreement highlights how cross-sector partnerships are driving the UAE’s industrial transformation. EMSTEEL is setting a regional benchmark for low-carbon steelmaking and demonstrating how energy transition and industrial competitiveness can advance together in support of the UAE’s Net Zero 2050 Strategy.
