Inside Clean Energy reports that a joint venture between a steel company, a mining company, and an electricity producer, known as HYBRIT, has succeeded in a pilot program to produce a form of iron using an almost-emissions-free process. By using renewable energy to produce hydrogen, then using that hydrogen with iron ore pellets, they have produced what is known as “sponge Iron,” which Martin-Lindqvist, the president and chief executive officer of SSAB, called “a critical step on the road to fossil-free steel.”