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ENERGY FROM SUGAR: THE BRAZILIAN CASE


source: www.undp.org/seed/eap/

www.fao.org/sd/EGdirect/EGre0033.htm

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Production of ethanol by fermenting sugars is a classic conversion route for sugar cane, maize, and corn on a large scale, especially in Brazil, France, and the United States.

PRO-ALCOOL, in Brazil, is the largest programme of commercial biomass utilisation in the world:
  • today in Brazil there are 6 million cars running with a mixture of 25% alcohol in their petrol.


  • In 1999, it resulted in an emission reduction of almost 13 megatons of carbon.


  • Since alcohol’s introduction, US$40 billion has been saved by not importing oil.


  • Roughly 700,000 rural jobs in sugar-alcohol are distributed among 350 private industrial units and 50,000 private sugarcane growers.
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