Industrial steam systems are one of the largest energy users in most plants, but they’re also one of the best places to find real, near-term carbon reduction. This session will focus on the types of opportunities we consistently see when evaluating steam systems—where the losses are, what’s driving them, and which improvements tend to make the biggest impact.

In this session, we'll talk about practical opportunities across steam distribution, condensate systems, and boiler plants, with an emphasis on issues that show up repeatedly in the field.

We’ll also spend some time on where things are headed. Electrification, heat recovery, and hybrid approaches are starting to shift how facilities think about steam generation. Longer term, emerging technologies like small modular reactors (SMRs) introduce the potential to generate steam with significantly lower carbon intensity—without fundamentally changing how steam is used in the facility.

The goal of this session is to provide a practical view of what can be done today, while also putting some context around where the industry may be going.