For nearly 100 years, Caterpillar has supported customers through energy transitions.
Caterpillar leans on our experience to offer numerous opportunities to help our customers transition to a lower-carbon economy. These opportunities start with reducing the GHG emissions of our operations and extend to help our customers achieve their climate-related goals through continued investment in new products, technologies and services that facilitate fuel flexibility, increased operational efficiency and reduced emissions.
To underscore the significance of these opportunities, our enterprise strategy includes sustainability as a focus area along with operational excellence, expanded offerings and services. Caterpillar’s commitment to supporting our customers in the energy transition also underscores our support of the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise. Caterpillar is committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future.
1 — Supporting the Mine Sites of the Future
Our mining equipment supports the increased demand for critical materials required for evolving energy technologies. These include copper, lithium, nickel and aluminum for electric vehicles, battery storage, wind and solar power, and grid modernization and stability.
2 — Building Infrastructure
Our construction equipment helps build the infrastructure needed for the energy transition. Improving fuel efficiency and productivity of machines helps customers reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
3 — Optimizing Natural Gas
Our reciprocating engines and gas turbines are widely used across the globe in upstream natural gas production and transmission. Natural gas is playing an important role in the energy transition.
4 — Increasing Alternative Fuel Capabilities
We offer machines and engines that are capable of operating on alternative fuels, such as biodiesel, biogas, hydrogen, hydrotreated vegetable oil and methanol while continuing to develop technologies for the future.
5 — Enhancing Energy Reliability
Customers utilize our reciprocating engine and gas turbine generator sets to support grid stability as renewable energy is increasingly added to the grid.