Inductive heating applies a magnetic field to a material to convert induced radio frequency (RF) electrical currents into heat , and the temperature rise depends on the material's magnetic susceptibility. A typical approach involves the placement of a solid bed of magnetically susceptible particles within the RF field. The appeal of inductive heating includes a) potential for localized heating of catalytic substrates with higher reaction rates and smaller reactors, b) the ability to generate heat more uniformly, shortening start-up times and thus facilitating more flexible operation. Despite successful medical and cooktops applications, it has only recently been investigated for chemical reaction systems. For example, inductive heating has been applied to steam reforming systems for hydrogen production, using magnetic, catalytic particles with the potential to achieve similar energy efficiency as fossil-fuel-based steam reforming for large-scale systems by proper coil geometry design. Similarly, microwave heating of catalysts applies radiation to a susceptible solid within the microwave cavity. Like inductive heating, microwaves lead to focused, localized heating of catalysts. This can target desired reactions at a catalytic site, supported on the microwave-susceptible material, with a very fast response time relative to conventional heating. This poses interesting opportunities to explore forced thermal cycling or short-lived production campaigns in response to demand and availability/pricing of electricity supply. However, current megawatt-scale applications of microwave-enabled reactions and processes are scarce, with examples including the production of esters from waste oils and alcohols and the microwave-assisted synthesis of HCN for small-scale distributed applications to avoid potential hazards of shipping and handling large quantities of this toxic material. While the methods mentioned above have many advantages, some barriers remain to be addressed for their commercial adoption. Barriers include reactor scalability and materials compatibility. For example, whether uniform heating can be achieved in larger diameter reactors remains to be determined, and materials and designs that enable higher temperature heat supply relevant for chemical processes will need to be identified. Also, the approaches described above do not enable significant levels of process flexibility or improvements in process energy efficiency, both of which imply that the power grid impacts of largescale deployment of these electrification strategies could potentially pose barriers to the integration of VRE electricity.