Stockholm: Meta has signed a multi-year agreement with Swedish green steel company Stegra to purchase environmental attribute certificates (EACs) linked to its green steel plant under construction in northern Sweden, Hydrogen Central reported.
The agreement is aimed at supporting demand for lower-carbon materials, reducing emissions across Meta’s supply chain and helping finance the development of early-stage manufacturing capacity.
The EACs associated with the physical steel will be verified by an accredited third party. They will allow Meta to address emissions linked to steel used in infrastructure projects, including data centre construction, while supporting the expansion of low-emission steel production.
Steel is a major source of embodied carbon in data centre construction, while commercially proven alternatives to conventional steelmaking remain limited at scale.
Stegra’s production process uses green hydrogen and renewable electricity and is designed to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 95% compared with conventional blast furnace-based steelmaking.
“The market for green steel is still in its early stages, and physical supply has not caught up with demand,” said Devon Lake, Head of Net Zero Strategy at Meta.
“Environmental attribute certificates let us act on those emissions now, with third-party verification, and direct demand toward production that is still coming online. That is how the market for green steel gets built,” Lake said.
Meta is also part of the RMI Sustainable Steel Buyers Platform, a group of companies from sectors with high steel consumption that are committed to facilitating the procurement of low-emission steel.
EACs provide companies with a way to address steel-related emissions when directly procuring the physical product is difficult. They can also help channel investment into new manufacturing capacity and support the scaling up of emerging low-carbon technologies.
