Brazil opens in eight fired power sugarcanee
by admin on Sep.28, 2010, under game
Brazil opens in eight fired power sugarcane bagasse.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27 September .- now set up eight new power plants fed with sugar cane bagasse, which have a combined capacity to generate 543 megawatts of energy.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, participated in the inauguration ceremony of the Central Thermoelectric Power (UTE) BioEnergy Bar, located in Barra Bonita, municipality in the state of Sao Paulo.
The other, gaia gold, seven generators, also built in Sao Paulo, the richest and most populous state in Brazil, were opened simultaneously.
"We are taking extraordinary steps to build and show the world energy production options alternative to rid the world of the emission of greenhouse gases that are causing so many problems on Earth," Lula stressed.
The Head of State, Grand Fantasia Gold, affirmed that of the 28,409 megawatts of installed capacity were added to the Brazilian energy park in their eight years in office, 4,000 are thermals that use biomass as fuel, a waste "before or botabamos burnt down," according to said.
"Biomass thermal plants now represent the equivalent to 6.6% of the energy grid across the country. Currently we have 375, ffxiv gil, operating plants with capacity to generate 7,265 megawatts," he stated.
The new thermal, whose construction required an investment of 853.6 million reais ($ 496 million dollars), belong mostly to manufacturers of sugar and ethanol from sugar cane, according to the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
Plants increase the added value of bagasse from sugar cane, which is considered a waste in Brazil, world's largest producer of cane sugar, refined sugar and ethanol from this raw material.
The thermal which was attended by the head of state functions in a local bar attached to wit, the second largest processing plant sugar cane in Brazil, and belongs to the company Cosan, the largest producer of sugar and ethanol in the country.
This unit will have an installed capacity of 66 megawatts, but Cosan plans to expand the plant so it can produce up to 136 megawatts, enough, according to the company, to meet the energy demand by the residences of a city of 1.2 million inhabitants.
The company already has six other power plants operating with sugar cane bagasse to produce 569 megawatts.
Besides praising the "clean energy" generated from sugarcane waste, Lula stressed in his speech that the ethanol produced in Brazil comes from sugar cane and not corn like the United States.
"The United States produces ethanol from corn, which increases the grain and animal feed. The U.S. ethanol costs three times more than ours," said Lula to request that the U.S. tariff reduction charged on the importation of Brazilian ethanol.
