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"Wads of government cash, a gas crisis, and a culture of innovation has helped
New Zealand to lead on the uptake of industrial heat pumps, an area where other
countries (ahem, Australia) are lagging.
The question now, as government support dries up, is can it keep up the pace –
and are the pay-offs for industry of going electric worth it?
“In the last 10 years, I’d say, the government giving money through GIDI
[Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry] has been a major factor which
has pushed [industrial heat pumps forward],” says Patrick Dempsey, Genesis
Energy’s commercial and industrial partnership manager.
“On top of that we have a culture of being pretty good with refrigeration and
more recently we have a gas crisis. So if you add all of those things up it
creates a situation where heat pumps can thrive.”
Dempsey is at the forefront of the New Zealand gen-tailer push to shift
industrial gas users into electrification – a shift that is eyed enviously by
those Australians also keen on industrial electrification.
In a new study into what Australia can learn from its electric-forward cousins
across the Tasman, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
(IEEFA) says the stats are bearing out the benefits of switching away from gas:
between 2019 and 2022 coal use within the food and beverage industry fell by 12
per cent and gas by 21 per cent, and electricity use rose by just 7 per cent."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
