Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 12:21 pm
As Minister for Energy and Resources Hon Dr Megan Woods
officially opened Fonterra’s wood pellet boiler at its Te
Awamutu plant, the Co-operative announced details for its
next site to exit coal - Stirling cheese plant in
Otago.
Otago’s ‘fantastic little cheese plant’,
will be coal free and using wood biomass to fire the site by
August next year.
This will make Stirling Fonterra’s
first 100% renewable thermal energy site, a significant step
towards the Co-op’s goal of getting out of coal all
together by 2037.
By switching to wood biomass, the
site’s annual emissions will reduce by 18,500 tonnes of