The country's biggest meat processor and exporter is aiming to generate cost savings of $700,000 a year through cutting back its energy use.
Silver Fern Farms has signed up to a programme with the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, EECA.
The company will spend about $1.4 million over two years improving energy management at five of its larger processing sites.
Silver Fern chief executive Keith Cooper says the company learned a lot from a water efficiency programme it carried out several years ago.
Mr Cooper says EECA has the expertise to look at how the company uses energy and whether it is wasting power.
He says there's also the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the company's carbon footprint through more efficient use of natural gas and coal for steam and water heating.
Silver Fern Farms is the second meat company to sign up to an energy efficiency programme with EECA.
ANZCO Foods is aiming to cut energy costs at 10 plants by more than $2 million a year.
