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Immingham CHP is one of the largest combined heat and power (cogeneration)
plants in Europe. The 1,220 MWe facility provides steam and electricity to Phillips
66’s Humber Refi nery, steam to the neighbouring Lindsey refi nery and merchant
power into the UK market. With more recent regional investment in wind power and
the bioethanol plant at Saltend that add to the existing CCGT and CHP power plants,
the Humber has been positioned as the ‘Energy Estuary’.
This rich industrial activity of the Humber and the wider Yorkshire and Humber
region have made it a natural home for applying industrial symbiosis principles (see
Chertow 2007 and Chap. 5 ). The early work on industrial symbiosis on Humberside
around the turn of the millennium was centred on the large capital projects of the
region. These included the Immingham CHP plant, studies on a ‘Humber bundle’
considered to link the chemical and gas generation plants of the north and south
bank through a strategic pipelines crossing beneath the river, together with a further
major study of material streams within the Humber’s chemical industry. This ‘topdown’ approach, considering major infrastructure initiatives, was later replaced
with a ‘bottom-up’ widespread engagement of industrial partners taken by the
NISP-Humber from 2003 onwards (Mirata 2004 ). This was one of the three pilot
regions at the start of the UK National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP); it
became the NISP-Yorkshire and Humber region in 2005. Over the subsequent 5
years alone, this programme engaged with 700 companies in Yorkshire and Humber
and documented CO 2 reductions of 780,000 tonnes per annum for its clients and a
reduction of 1,400,000 tonnes in material being landfi lled.
Link2Energy Ltd ran these latter two industrial programmes on behalf of
International Synergies Ltd. Initially the funding was from the regional development agency Yorkshire Forward and subsequently from the Department of Food and
Rural Affairs (DEFRA). From 2012 Link2Energy Ltd developed its own independent commercial programme Re:Sourcing UK with a focus on high-value opportunities and innovation. It is against this background and experience that Link2Energy
Ltd was invited to provide industrial symbiosis expertise into the European FP7funded project LOCIMAP, below.
The strategic importance of the Humber region has also been recognised by a
study carried out by the University of Surrey on the Evolution and Resilience of
Industrial Ecosystems (ERIE) project. Two further papers draw extensively on the
work in the Humber region, ‘Habitat’ Suitability Index Mapping for Industrial
Symbiosis Planning (Jensen et al. 2012 ) and Quantifying ‘Geographic Proximity’:
Experiences from the United Kingdom’s National Industrial Symbiosis Programme
(Jensen et al. 2011 ).
2 The LOCIMAP Project
Europe’s 2020 growth strategy (EC 2012 ) commits to limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 20 % compared to 1990 levels, creating 20 % of Europe’s energy needs
from renewables and increasing energy effi ciency by 20 %. Within this broad
M. Bailey and A. Gadd
Immingham CHP is one of the largest combined heat and power (cogeneration)
plants in Europe. The 1,220 MWe facility provides steam and electricity to Phillips
66’s Humber Refi nery, steam to the neighbouring Lindsey refi nery and merchant
power into the UK market. With more recent regional investment in wind power and
the bioethanol plant at Saltend that add to the existing CCGT and CHP power plants,
the Humber has been positioned as the ‘Energy Estuary’.
This rich industrial activity of the Humber and the wider Yorkshire and Humber
region have made it a natural home for applying industrial symbiosis principles (see
Chertow 2007 and Chap. 5 ). The early work on industrial symbiosis on Humberside
around the turn of the millennium was centred on the large capital projects of the
region. These included the Immingham CHP plant, studies on a ‘Humber bundle’
considered to link the chemical and gas generation plants of the north and south
bank through a strategic pipelines crossing beneath the river, together with a further
major study of material streams within the Humber’s chemical industry. This ‘topdown’ approach, considering major infrastructure initiatives, was later replaced
with a ‘bottom-up’ widespread engagement of industrial partners taken by the
NISP-Humber from 2003 onwards (Mirata 2004 ). This was one of the three pilot
regions at the start of the UK National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP); it
became the NISP-Yorkshire and Humber region in 2005. Over the subsequent 5
years alone, this programme engaged with 700 companies in Yorkshire and Humber
and documented CO 2 reductions of 780,000 tonnes per annum for its clients and a
reduction of 1,400,000 tonnes in material being landfi lled.
Link2Energy Ltd ran these latter two industrial programmes on behalf of
International Synergies Ltd. Initially the funding was from the regional development agency Yorkshire Forward and subsequently from the Department of Food and
Rural Affairs (DEFRA). From 2012 Link2Energy Ltd developed its own independent commercial programme Re:Sourcing UK with a focus on high-value opportunities and innovation. It is against this background and experience that Link2Energy
Ltd was invited to provide industrial symbiosis expertise into the European FP7funded project LOCIMAP, below.
The strategic importance of the Humber region has also been recognised by a
study carried out by the University of Surrey on the Evolution and Resilience of
Industrial Ecosystems (ERIE) project. Two further papers draw extensively on the
work in the Humber region, ‘Habitat’ Suitability Index Mapping for Industrial
Symbiosis Planning (Jensen et al. 2012 ) and Quantifying ‘Geographic Proximity’:
Experiences from the United Kingdom’s National Industrial Symbiosis Programme
(Jensen et al. 2011 ).
2 The LOCIMAP Project
Europe’s 2020 growth strategy (EC 2012 ) commits to limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 20 % compared to 1990 levels, creating 20 % of Europe’s energy needs
from renewables and increasing energy effi ciency by 20 %. Within this broad
M. Bailey and A. Gadd