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Renewable electricity can be leveraged to produce fuels and chemicals from CO₂, offering sustainable routes to reduce the carbon intensity of our energy and products-driven economy. A number of approaches have been developed for the electron-driven reduction of CO₂ to products, including both direct and indirect (via an energy carrier such as H₂) pathways and spanning from electrochemical to biological to thermocatalytic conversion. This presentation will discuss the technical and economic feasibility of these pathways for utilizing electricity to reduce CO₂ into C₁-C₃ products. The integration of these CO₂ utilization technologies with emerging biorefineries will also be discussed.