The Regional Heat Demand Database is an interactive data visualisation tool that shows aggregated data from existing New Zealand process heat sites with a capacity of at least 500 kW relying on fossil fuels. The tool allows the data to be viewed in a Sankey diagram, as well as bar and map charts. Data can be filtered by region, sector, and fuel type across various key metrics.
Data was collected for the South Island across 2021 and 2022, and for the North Island across 2022 and 2023. The data has been validated against, and supplemented with, data collected through EECA’s Regional Energy Transition Accelerator (RETA) programme of work, to ensure the dataset is of the highest quality currently achievable.
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The complete published dataset can be accessed below.
Regional Heat Demand Database Data [CSV 18 KB]
Longer term it is planned that the Regional Heat Demand Database will be maintained and updated with the most current information available on the process heat data picture, and this will include clean fuel usage for process heat as well.
Detailed raw data can be made available to New Zealand government agencies for the purposes of work relating to New Zealand's decarbonisation. For more information contact EECAenquiries@eeca.govt.nz with the subject line "Regional Heat Demand Database".