22 April 2021 16:52 GMT Updated 22 April 2021 16:52 GMT Industrial giants GE and Hitachi ABB have inked a cross-license agreement to replace the use of sulfur hexafluoride – known as SF6, a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) – with a fluoronitrile-based mixed gas for used as an insulator for high voltage (HV) electrical equipment and for switches. Green is the new black. Subscribe to Accelerate Get the market insight you need into the global oil & gas industry's energy transition – from the new newsletter from Upstream and Recharge. Sign up here The deal to shift to GE’s so-called g3 fluoronitrile-based gas, said to “significantly” reduce the environmental impact of HV systems compared to SF6, the two said, would make possible solutions that do not use the standard SF6 for HV equipment in the coming years and so will allow utilities and industry to accelerate reductions in GHGs.