Sublime Systems’ Post

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations has selected Sublime Systems to receive an $87 million investment as part of the single largest industrial decarbonization effort in U.S. history!! Our project will play an important role in decarbonizing the cement sector by accelerating our true-zero manufacturing technology to first commercial scale in Holyoke, Mass., which was once known as the "Paper City of the World." The DoE is playing an admirable role in the decarbonization of heavy industry, with catalytic funding that allows companies like us to move faster than would have otherwise been possible and deploy our carbon avoidance technology with the urgency needed to meet the world’s net-zero-by-2050 goals.  While scaling the fossil-fuel-free technology to produce the cement of our post-carbon future, we are excited to be simultaneously strengthening the American manufacturing base and bringing great jobs to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where we got our start. We are proudly partnering with the United Steelworkers (USW) — the single largest industrial union in North America — to support our future employees’ right to organize and to train the workforce needed for our electrochemical cement manufacturing. The City of Holyoke and Mayor Joshua A. Garcia have been so forward thinking in welcoming us and embracing their role in the new clean manufacturing era. The clean transition can be a just transition — and we are just getting started.  Together, with our 33 fellow selectees, we’ll: 🏗️🌎Transform the industrial sector with new emissions-slashing technologies.  🇺🇸📈Strengthen American manufacturing competitiveness.   👷🦺Create and maintain good-paying jobs.  Sublime's award selection was featured in Brad Plumer of The New York Times' coverage of the Industrial Demonstrations Program, here: https://lnkd.in/eVzt5zqv #KeepBuilding #OCED #IndustrialDemonstrationsProgram #industrialdecarbonization #lowcarboncement #hardtoabate #climateinnovation #netzero2050

"More American jobs, more American innovation, it's a no brainer," says our VP of policy & BD Joe Hicken about the introduction of the second bipartisan bill introduced to accelerate low-carbon cement, concrete, and asphalt. We'll say it again: public sector support for low-carbon cement means we can deploy twice as fast and address the climate crisis with the urgency it demands. All while strengthening American manufacturing, jobs, and innovation. We applaud U.S. Representatives Valerie Foushee and Max Miller for introducing this legislation in the House, complementing the bipartisan Concrete & Asphalt Innovation Act introduced earlier in the Senate by Senators Thom Tillis and Christopher Coons. These bills strengthen R&D and collaboration across federal and state agencies to accelerate low-carbon building materials, fund grants for purchase at the state DOT level, and enable agencies to secure low-carbon materials in advance, unleashing critical buyer signals to the broader market. We are grateful for the collaboration between lawmakers, innovators, and industrial decarbonization thought leaders in advancing these bills, including Decarbonized Cement & Concrete Alliance, ClearPath, Clean Air Task Force, Sierra Club, and World Resources Institute. Learn more about the legislation here: https://lnkd.in/gfw4dxQN #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #industrialdecarbonization #Americanmanufacturing #innovation

Last week saw not one but two major events in Washington, D.C., coalescing the most influential buyers and policy makers in decarbonized cement and concrete. Our CEO Leah Ellis and VP of Policy & BD Joe Hicken attended a workshop put on by the #FirstMoversCoalition U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and World Economic Forum, focused on catalyzing the market for industrial decarbonization. The workshop underscored the urgency to decarbonize and the supportive policy environment provided by recent legislative measures such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, funding Sublime is accessing through our award from the DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations. These policies build on innovative partnership models, such as demand aggregation and coalition financing, to create a robust support system for cement’s decarbonization. By assembling all players involved — from producers to end-customers to policy makers — we can seize this moment and follow in the successful footsteps of clean energy generation.    Furthering this momentum, on Friday, the White House held its first ever Concrete Innovation Summit to highlight progress in reducing emissions, accelerating commercialization of new clean technologies, and building the momentum of increasing customer demand for higher performance and lower emission products. Leah Ellis was honored to attend with fellow innovators advancing low-carbon cement, as well as critical thought leaders and buyers who are essential in its rollout to the market. The event also unveiled exciting new federally funded initiatives in both the deployment and R&D of low-carbon cement. We are so grateful for the federal government's embrace of industrial decarbonization as the next frontier for fighting climate change, particularly given the public sector buys more than half of all cement in the U.S. We often say that one major challenge with decarbonizing cement was bringing awareness to a legacy material that is so ubiquitous it is nearly invisible. No more — low-carbon cement is capturing attention on some of the biggest world stages and energizing a global community of buyers, policy makers, and inventors who are committed to its role in reducing global CO2 emissions. Thank you to the incredible teams of organizers, we look forward to much more. Learn more about the White House event and new initiatives here: https://lnkd.in/exrt7KKk #KeepBuilding #FirstMoversCoalition #WEF24 #industrialdecarbonization #lowcarboncement

The public sector procures more than half of all cement in the United States, giving it enormous influence in accelerating adoption of the building technologies needed for our post-carbon future. The federal GSA owns or manages most of the civilian federal government’s real estate, so Sublime is extremely proud to be included in the agency’s Green Proving Ground (GPG)! This program, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has selected sustainable technologies that will be used in federal buildings, evaluated for their effectiveness, and reported on for broad buyer education across the public and private sector. This initiative not only helps the agency reach its own goals toward net zero by 2045 but provides critical insight to the broader market as a massive buyer of sustainable building technologies and materials allowing companies like Sublime to reach the needed customers more quickly and effectively. We are in great company alongside technologies spanning sustainable building envelopes, HVAC, energy management, and renewables, and we are excited to see the program addressing both operational and embodied carbon! Stay tuned to hear more about the projects we’ll deploy in and in the meantime learn more about the program here: https://lnkd.in/eTAe6yFN #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #greenprovingground #sustainablebuilding

The proliferation of clean energy catalyzed the founding of Sublime and our mission to decarbonize cement, so it is an honor and a full circle moment to welcome renewable energy developer Vineyard Offshore as a customer. They have committed to reserving up to 2,000 tons of our Sub lime Cement™ for their Vineyard Wind 2 project, should it be awarded. This is an excellent example of what an ecosystem of climate technology scale-up looks like in our state and beyond. Abundant clean energy enables new electrified technologies to emerge, who in turn become customers of renewables. And renewable energy proliferated in large part because of early public sector investments, providing a blueprint for how similar incentives can accelerate the next generation of decarbonization technologies. Our CEO Dr. Leah Ellis will be speaking about how other buyers can accelerate the clean energy transition with low-carbon cement, at an event today in Washington, D.C. put on by the World Economic Forum's First Movers Coalition. #KeepBuilding #cleanenergy #lowcarboncement #climatetech https://lnkd.in/gcQkrbqw

“It takes a village, you can’t do this as one person, you can’t do this as one team — you need teams of teams and this is what we got here today,” our CEO Dr. Leah Ellis explained recently on the site of our first commercial installation of Sublime Cement™.  We are humbled by our incredible partners, the people who are working hard to usher in our post-carbon future today. They have been generous with their knowledge, experience, resources, and time. We are confident that low-carbon cement and net-zero construction won’t need those labels in the future because they will become the standard, and it will be because of the hard work of these early adopters.  They include Jim Carreira, technical director of BOSTON SAND & GRAVEL CO, who has worked tirelessly with us to validate our cement in concrete and facilitate our use on job sites. It includes WS Development's Yanni Tsipis, who chose to incorporate Sublime Cement™ in a prominent section of the lobby of his One Boston Wharf building, with a plaque educating the building’s many tenants and visitors about the role low-carbon cement plays in fighting climate change.  In this video you can hear more about what inspires them and their organizations to “chart a course to a no-carbon future” (Yanni’s words) and about the “tidal wave” (Jim’s words) of low-carbon cement deployment that is here.  We are beyond honored to #KeepBuilding with them!  #lowcarboncement #sustainableconstruction #postcarbonfuture #climatetech

CNBC's Diana Olick took a look at our true-zero manufacturing technology for decarbonizing cement. WS Development's Yanni Tsipis was featured in the story, detailing our recent commercial project at One Boston Wharf, Boston's largest net-zero-carbon office building. Catch the full clip here: https://lnkd.in/eTKq9-VV #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #truezero #sustainableconstruction #postcarbonfuture

It was an honor to gather last week at the Massachusetts State House with Gov. Maura Healey and her administration, alongside the many impressive companies on this list working on breakthrough technologies in service of our planet. Impressively, but not surprisingly, Massachusetts had the highest number of companies per capita on the list!