Unleashing the Potential of Industrial Clusters 2025

Through comprehensive engagement with the Forum’s community of participants from government, professional, industry, academic and R&D organizations globally, three impactful solution areas have been identified. The following section of this paper explores these solutions and outlines examples of how clusters and players along the value chain are accelerating action: 1. Develop a common vision at cluster level: Building a strong foundation within the cluster to unlock its full potential. This entails achieving effective governance to drive decision-making, expanding cluster-public collaboration and building up a digital core at a cluster level that enables data collaboration to unlock mutual benefits and system value.2. Expedite the scaling of cluster-level clean energy initiatives: Enhancing collaboration between players across the clean energy value chain from heavy industry, transport and logistics to manage the green premium and facilitating stable and growing demand signals. 3. Strengthen the collaboration across clusters and regions: Creating global networks and partnership initiatives between industry, government and other organizations to facilitate the transport of clean energy between export and import locations in an increasingly multipolar world. Three solution areas for industrial clusters and their ecosystems to solve the clean energy infrastructure challengeFIGURE 1 Expedite the scaling of cluster-level clean energy initiatives 123 New and enhanced business modelsFinancing Aggregated and integrated demand Develop a common vision at cluster levelCluster-level digital coreCluster-public collaboration Cluster governanceStrengthen the collaboration across clusters and regionsValue chain partnershipsInternational initiativesGlobal networks Industrial clusters provide a foundation for accelerating the energy transition, particularly as infrastructure emerges to support new energy flows between clusters. As a specialist in shared infrastructure solutions within clusters, we optimally design, operate and maintain infrastructure. For instance, our expertise enables the repurposing of existing assets for sustainable energies and feedstocks, while optimizing land use in ports. Consequently, shared infrastructure solutions within clusters contribute to reliable and efficient flows of sustainable energies and feedstocks. Dick Richelle, Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer, Royal Vopak Unleashing the Full Potential of Industrial Clusters: Infrastructure Solutions for Clean Energies 11