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Sweet dreams are made of this: bioelectricity in Brazil

S. Granville, P. Lino, L. Soares, L.A. Barroso, M. V. Pereira

IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting - IEEE PES GM 2007, Tampa (United States of America). 24-28 junio 2007


Summary:

The integrated sugar/ethanol/electricity production has become the new business model - the bioelectricity industry - with a potential to become a ldquomainstreamrdquo energy option in the near future in Brazil. Besides being clean, it is competitive: several hundred MW of bioelectricity plants have already signed long-term electricity supply contracts with the distribution companies. These contracts have been awarded on a competitive basis (public auctions), without any subsidy policy and an agreement with the World Bank to create an ldquoumbrellardquo qualifying procedure of bioelectricity plans for carbon credits - with a later auction of the credits - is already in place. The objective of this work is to discuss the bioelectricity achievements in Brazil.


Keywords: Power system economics, power system planning, clean energy, carbon trading.


DOI: DOI icon https://doi.org/10.1109/PES.2007.386172

Publication date: June 2007.



Citation:
Granville, S., Lino, P., Soares, L., Barroso, L.A., Pereira, M. V., Sweet dreams are made of this: bioelectricity in Brazil, IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting - IEEE PES GM 2007, Tampa (United States of America). 24-28 June 2007.

IIT-07-098C