Sustainable Industrial Parks

Toine van MegenAuroville Consulting

Carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations(in parts per million) for the last 1100 yearsSource: David JC MacKay

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The Energy Pyramid

Source: Sustainable Urban Energy: A Sourcebook for Asia

Energy Saving

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Source: Sustainable Urban Energy: A Sourcebook for Asia

Energy Saving

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Source: Sustainable Urban Energy: A Sourcebook for Asia

Green Industrial Parks

– Energy Conservation opportunities

– Energy Efficiency opportunities

– Industrial electricity consumers can become producers (a “prosumer”) of renewable energy

– Industrial electricity prosumers can be exporting energy to each other and importing energy from each other

– The waste of one industry may be a raw material of another industry (Waste-Free Industrial Park)

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Green Industrial Parks

– Energy budget for each industry and the park as whole

– Industries can install solar PV systems in rural areas (the Solar Village initiative) and wheel energy to their factories

– Industrial Parks to be designated as “Green Industrial Parks” when certain criteria are met. Green Industrial Parks to be given an incentive (e.g. property tax concession)

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Resource Recovery Facility

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Source: Sustainable Urban Energy: A Sourcebook for Asia

Co-generation

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Source: Sustainable Urban Energy: A Sourcebook for Asia

Renewable Energy Grid Penetrationand the Smart Grid….

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Renewable Energy Grid Penetrationand the Smart Grid….

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Grid-connected solar PV System

Industries can obtain solar net metering.

Acts also as a hedging mechanism for future power cost increases.

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Green Industrial Parks

– A huge opportunity for our industries

– Gives social, environmental and financial returns

– Competing industries can work together to build a sustainable environment

– Green Industrial Parks can be “REZs” – Renewable Energy Zones

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Thank You

Toine van Megentvm@auroville.org.in