Unleashing the Potential of Industrial Clusters 2025

Executive summary Industrial clusters are key to successful clean energy infrastructure deployment The rapid deployment of large-scale clean energy infrastructure is vital to achieving the Paris Agreement’s goals while balancing energy security and ensuring a fair transition. Advancing towards these goals will require an integrated multi-fuel, multi-modal ecosystem. Coupled with the unprecedented pace of infrastructure deployment required, this multistakeholder ecosystem is complex. The formation of industrial clusters is an effective strategy for successfully deploying infrastructure. These clusters can offer economies of scale, share risks, aggregate and optimize demand, secure financing and attract capital for clean energy infrastructure. Clusters are also driving the production, distribution and consumption of clean energy, while ports (and port-anchored clusters) facilitate global logistics as key connecting nodes between international markets and regional industries. This white paper addresses the clean energy infrastructure challenge and presents potential solutions, emphasizing the importance of a multistakeholder approach involving the public, private and R&D sectors. It presents three solution areas within industrial clusters and the broader clean energy value chain:To accelerate the energy transition, industry leaders across multiple sectors together with policy-makers have the opportunity to harness the power of industrial clusters and streamline collaboration across the clean energy value chain. 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.5Expedite 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.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.1 2 3 Unleashing the Full Potential of Industrial Clusters: Infrastructure Solutions for Clean Energies 4