Living Energy Limited

This webpage combines a member profile for Living Energy (a Silver member of the Bioenergy Association of New Zealand) with broader messaging from the Association about bioenergy’s role in New Zealand’s energy and economic transition. The Living Energy profile describes a specialist company, established in 2003, focused on delivering wood‑derived heat to industrial, commercial and public sector clients across New Zealand and Australia. The page reports that Living Energy has supplied and installed about 30 wood boilers totalling roughly 42,000 kW of capacity, and claims associated client cost savings and avoided CO2 emissions in the order of thousands of tonnes. Recent activity includes a partnership to supply fit‑for‑purpose bulk fuel storage solutions (notably the Javo Toploader) to complement boiler installations. Leadership and technical capability are emphasised: Managing Director Rob Mallinson is noted as a founding board member of the Bioenergy Association, former long‑term Chair, and current convener of the Association’s Wood Energy Interest Group. The profile states Mallinson combines practical project experience with regional knowledge of wood‑fuel resource availability, enabling succinct feasibility studies and advisory services for wood‑energy projects. The page lists contact details and links to Living Energy’s wood energy advisory services and the Javo Toploader brochure. The Bioenergy Association content on the page frames bioenergy as New Zealand’s most widely used renewable energy type and outlines a strategic vision for expansion. Current figures are presented (more than 9% of New Zealand’s energy from bioenergy) with a pathway suggesting this could increase to about 27% by 2050, delivering an estimated 15% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to 2017 levels. The Association projects significant economic upside if bioenergy and biofuels scale — including potential addition of up to NZ$6 billion per year to the economy — driven by leveraging residues and co‑products from agriculture, forestry and wood processing, and by converting waste streams into energy and products. Strategic priorities highlighted on the page include: promoting a “wood‑first” approach to construction and infrastructure; driving product innovation and bio‑based industry development; eliminating organic waste to landfill by 2035; developing regional bio‑processing hubs; and supporting trade in bio‑based products. The messaging positions bioenergy as both an emissions mitigation opportunity and a driver of regional economic development, particularly for rural communities, by creating jobs and strengthening local value chains. The webpage presents these claims as the Association’s policy and sectoral priorities.