OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDUSTRIAL CO-LOCATION TO IMPROVE RENEWABLE ENERGY USE AND EFFICIENCY

Abstract

This paper is an update on the New Zealand opportunities for industrial co-location, where there are wood resources, natural energy sources and process heat demand. Industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries, clustering in a collective approach, for mutual advantage. Wastes and by-products from one facility become the raw material for another. Potentially available energy resources have been used to identify opportunities where industrial heat might be supplied more efficiently from renewable geothermal or woody biomass energy sources. Mapping the co-location of industrial heat consumers with these two key energy sources identifies opportunities that can contribute to the renewable energy transition that is occurring in the New Zealand’s process heat sector.