Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA)

Net zero technology is technology that is necessary to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Techniques included in net zero techniques are:

• solar energy technology, including solar cell, solar thermal and solar thermal technology
• technology for land-based wind power and sea-based renewable energy
• technology for batteries and energy storage
• technology for heat pumps and geothermal energy
• hydrogen technology, including electrolysis plants and fuel cells
• technology for sustainable biogas and biomethane
• CCS technology (CCS = Carbon Capture and Storage)
• grid technology, including charging technology for transport and technology to digitize the grid
• fission energy technology, including nuclear fuel cycle technology
• technology for sustainable alternative fuels
• hydropower technology
• other renewable energy technologies, including salt gradient energy technologies, ambient energy technologies (except heat pumps), bioma
• satechnik, technology for landfill gas, gas technology for gas from sewage treatment plants
• technology for energy system-related energy efficiency, including heating network technology
• technology for renewable fuels of non-biological origin
• biotechnology solutions for climate and energy
• pioneering industrial technology for decarbonisation
• technology for the transport and utilization of carbon dioxide
• wind and electric propulsion technology for transport
• other nuclear technology

Each net zero technology can consist of end products, specific components or specific machines. For example, heat pumps are an end product and wind turbine blades a component that constitute net zero technology. In the EU Commission's list, you can read more about which end products and components constitute net zero technology.

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1463

• manufacturing projects that produce final products, special components or special machines that are primarily used for the production of net zero technology.
• carbon dioxide storage, including capture and transport of carbon dioxide.
• projects for decarbonisation in energy-intensive industry that are part of the supply chain for a net-zero technology and that significantly and permanently reduce emissions of carbon dioxide equivalents from industrial processes.