Green Energi Havens
GreenLab: Pioneering Circular Industrial Symbiosis in Denmark
Located in the industrial heartland of Denmark, GreenLab, is a ground breaking green and circular industrial park that exemplifies the future of integrated energy systems. Its mission centres on enhancing renewable energy production, transformation, storage, and utilisation. Through its innovative SymbiosisNet™, GreenLab enables companies to share surplus energy and resources, fostering a holistic and efficient industrial ecosystem.
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Green Energi Havens on Old Industrial Sites
Imagine a future where old, abandoned industrial sites transform into vibrant hubs of energy and innovation. These Green Energi Havens can unlock the full potential of British energy, creating a future where nothing goes to waste. Located near major cities, these hubs become even more valuable by providing local economic benefits and reducing the need for imported energy.
Re-purposed industrial sites can support green industrial clustering, utilizing green electricity to produce hydrogen and support symbiotic industries such as e-fuels, carbon-neutral fertilizers, vertical farming, and renewable industrial processing.
Excess heat generated at these hubs can be captured via regional Heat Transmission Highways, delivering clean and affordable heat to our villages, towns and cities.
By strategically integrating sectors such as power and heat utilities, we can foster local growth, create green industry jobs, all while eliminating fuel poverty and achieving our net-zero emissions.
Fighting Fuel Poverty with Great British Energy
Green Energi Havens & Heat Transmission Highways
Green Energi Havens and Heat Transmission Highways are critical steps in the UK’s net-zero journey, demonstrating that a waste-not, want-not future is not just a “pipe” dream but a necessity.
Why are industrial clusters crucial for the green transition?
From January 2021 to April 2023, £1.5 billion was spent in the UK to curtail more than 6.5 TWh of wind power.
Industrial clustering avoids curtailment and reduces the need for grid investments by locating renewable energy production close to the industries that need the energy most. These companies can then take the power directly and use it in their production.
At the same time, electricity can be converted into process heat (water/steam) that can be used in industrial production, and surplus heat from these business’ can be circulated in an internal heating network within the industrial park or distributed more widely via inter-city heat transmission highways to homes and businesses in the surrounding region.
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Harnessing Hydrogen’s Hidden Power to Heat Our Cities
Excess Wind Energy: Too Valuable to Waste
Waste Heat from Data Centres
Green Energi Havens: Powering Prosperity with Clean Heat
How the Green Transition Fuels Community Wealth and Green Jobs
The transition from pollution-heavy heating systems to clean, green heat represents more than just an environmental necessity; it is a significant opportunity to build community wealth and create new green jobs. This shift demands a massive build-out of renewable technologies such as geothermal, solar, wind, and biogas, alongside the development of supporting green industries. To realize this vision, a vast deployment of labour and an upgrade in skills will be essential.
The Unlikely Heroes of Tomorrow's Energy Revolution
From Sewage to Streaming the Surprising Future of Waste Heat
The smartest way to reduce our heating costs and emissions is by utilising industrial waste heat and other freely available heat. Harnessing these resources requires embedding excess heat capture into our urban planning – and building heat highways to feed our community heat networks.
Explore Other Campaigns
EnergiRaven is at the forefront of the UK’s green energy transition, championing initiatives like Heat Transmission Highways and the Green Energi Haven campaign to pave the path to Net Zero.
Heat Highways
Heat Highways can provide green, affordable, and sustainable heating solutions by capturing zero-carbon waste heat from commercial and industrial sources and transporting it directly to population centres.
Waste Not, Want Not!
Across our regions, abundant sources of untapped heat, such as waste incineration, industrial processes, surface water, and geothermal reserves, are waiting to be harnessed.
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