Stegra and Meta sign agreement for environmental attribute certificates to advance green steel
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Stegra12 Nov, 2026, 12:29 GMT
STOCKHOLM, November 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Stegra has signed a multi-year agreement with Meta for environmental attribute certificates (EACs) linked to Stegra's green steel plant in Northern Sweden, currently under construction. As part of the agreement, the EACs associated with the physical steel are verified by an accredited third party. Meta is purchasing EACs to drive demand for lower carbon materials, address emissions in its supply chain, and help scale and finance early-stage manufacturing.
Steel is one of the largest sources of embodied carbon in data center construction and conventional steelmaking has few commercially proven alternatives at scale.
The contract with Stegra supports Meta's effort to address emissions sources throughout its supply chain, including the steel used to build data centers. EACs allow Meta to address their own supply chain emissions while driving lower carbon solutions across the steelmaking sector.
Stegra's steelmaking process is based on green hydrogen and renewable electricity, allowing for up to 95% reduction of CO2 emissions compared to 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. 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," says Devon Lake, Head of Net Zero Strategy, Meta.
Meta is part of the RMI Sustainable Steel Buyers Platform which is a group of companies that are active in sectors with high steel usage, and are committed to facilitating low-emission steel procurement. EACs allow companies to address their steel-related emissions where direct procurement of the physical product is challenging. EACs can help drive investment to new manufacturing capacity and scale promising clean technologies.
"Meta has been a leader in addressing supply chain emissions, including utilizing environmental attribute certificates to make progress in hard to abate sectors. Meta is a leader with a global reach, and a valuable partner for Stegra to be working with, we hope that this is the start of a long partnership," says Luisa Orre, Chief Business Development Officer, Stegra.
About Stegra's steel EACs:
The method decouples the environmental attributes from the physical product, also known as book-and-claim. The steel underlying these EACs is produced using green hydrogen and renewable electricity, with close to zero emissions.
The physical steel is delivered as steel without the environmental attributes. The buyer of the physical steel does not make environmental claims on it, so the emissions benefit is attributed solely to the EAC holder. Stegra applies book-and-claim to the non-prime steel it produces. Every steel mill produces some non-prime steel, but in a new steel mill, the share of non-prime steel is larger than when the mill has been up and running for several years. This steel is made in the same process as the rest of the production volumes, which in Stegra's case is with green hydrogen and renewable electricity. www.stegra.com/en/eacs-for-steel
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For more information, contact: Karin Hallstan, Head of Communications, Stegra at press@stegra.com or +46 76 842 81 04
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