Fonterra’s largest conversion to wood fuel
Fonterra is set to convert two coal boilers to wood pellets at its Clandeboye site in South Canterbury. The $64 million investment will cut the Co-operative’s overall emissions by nine per cent with reductions totalling 155,000 tonnes of CO2e each year, the equivalent of removing more than 64,000 cars from New Zealand roads each year. The conversion of the two boilers is scheduled to be completed and operational by September 2025. Plans to transition the site’s remaining boilers onto renewable energy will continue as part of the Co-operative's wider decarbonisation plans.