Electrification of industrial heat is central to Europe’s decarbonisation, competitiveness and energy security goals. While bringing down electricity prices is essential to improving the economics of electrified heat, it is only one part of the solution. Industry also needs access to finance, timely grid connections and the skills required to deploy electrified technologies at scale.

These country-level factsheets provide a high-level overview of identified policies in France, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom that aim to tackle the main barriers to electrification of industrial heat. It examines policies supporting the affordability of electrified heat, access to the electricity grid, and the availability of skills and institutional capacity. Each factsheet concludes with short considerations for policymakers, identifying opportunities to strengthen the identified policies.

The briefing is published as a companion piece to RAP’s analysis, Making electricity cheaper: Modernising taxes and levies to incentivise electrification of industrial heat, which explores how electricity prices can be reduced through reforming taxes and levies to support electrification of heat.