UK company to set up biomass power plants in Cuba
26 January 2011
London – UK company Havana Energy Ltd - part of the Esencia Group - has teamed up with Zerus SA, a company linked to the Ministry of Sugar, to develop a pilot 30MW power plant at Ciro Redondo Sugar Mill, about 400km from Havana, and as a second stage four further power plants.
The business will be developed in a joint venture company. Cuba today has 7% of its energy needs supplied by renewable energy sources, the Cuban government is eager to increase this % via the natural resources the country has and to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.
Cuba’s ministry of sugar and National Electricity Board have a strategy to increase power generation in all its operating sugar mills to decentralise the grid and provide power generation in areas which have weaker supply today.
Nelson Labrada, vice-minister of sugar, said: “This strategy of using sugarcane bagasse for power generation avoids one of the primary problems with other biomass sources, which is supply.
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