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11/6/2023
U.S. Steel Corp. has converted two diesel switcher locomotives to battery-operated units at its Mon Valley Works' Edgar Thomson and Clairton plants in Pennsylvania.
The locomotives were built by Innovative Rail Technologies, a provider of lithium-ion propulsion solutions in the locomotive market, U.S. Steel officials said in a press release.
U.S. Steel invested more than $2.3 million in the locomotives. The project's cost was partially offset through a partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
The switch to battery-powered locomotives will reduce the amount of diesel consumed at the facilities annually by 40,000 gallons, reduce particulate matter emissions and demonstrate the company’s use of emerging technology to help reach its goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, U.S. Steel officials said.
"Mon Valley Works is the first industrial site to deploy this technology to reduce small particulate matter emissions from its locomotive fleet," said Scott Buckiso, U.S. Steel's senior vice president and chief manufacturing officer.