This IEE co-funded project (November 2006 to November 2008) aimed to identify and help remove the barriers to the deployment of large-scale co/polygeneration technologies in European industry. The project analysed the drivers for investments in co/polygeneration in the following industrial sectors: pulp and paper, chemicals, mineral oil refineries and food processing.

Besides the analysis of the policy backdrop and the economic and financial considerations, the D-ploy project has broken new ground by creating a map of all large-scale installations in the aforementioned sector and highlighting those sites that are implementing co/polygeneration technological solutions. The aim here was to provide policy-makers with a visual tool demonstrating how much potential is still untapped, despite the tremendous benefits of these technologies in terms of fuel savings and reduced CO₂ emissions.

The D-ploy (Deploying large-scale polygeneration in industry) project was coordinated by Cogen Europe.