Title: New, Sustainable Economic activities in the Sugar Industry
1New, Sustainable Economic activities in the Sugar
Industry
Regional Agriculture Investment Forum Georgetown
Guyana CARICOM June 6-7, 2008
Inter-American Development Bank
2Content
- Background
- Trends
- Opportunities
- Threats
3Background
- IDB Group (energy and agroenergy) SCF, IIC and
INE/ENE-RND - The Energy Division of Bank
- Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative
(SECCI) (US 40 M Grant) - Bioenergy Pillar
- Expanding Bioenergy Opportunities in the
Caribbean August 6-7th, 2007 Georgetown Guyana
(CARICOM-IDB-OAS-IICA and the Government of
Guyana) - Launching of the Caribbean Renewable Energy,
Energy Efficiency and Bioenergy Action Program
(CREBAP)
4Trends The Sugar Cane Process Future
5Trends Ethanol Production
US
Billones de litros
Brasil
Others
UE
Source UNICA, University of Iowa
6Trends Ethanol Production/Consuption Brazil and
US
BRAZIL
US
56
52
48
Bush Target
44
FAPRI
40
36
Billion litres
32
Production
USDA
28
24
20
Consumption
RFS
16
Consumption
12
Production
8
CBI Imports
Exports
4
Imports
0
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Notas Crecimiento lineal asumido en base a las
estimativas y metas de 2012 y 2017. RFS
Renewables Fuel Standards. Importaciones de los
EEUU asumidos como siendo 7 del consumo. Meta
del Presidente Bush es de 132 billones de litros
de combustibles renovables y alternativos en
2017. Proyecciones presentadas por Bruce
Babcock en seminario de WWC (Feb2007). Cálculo
en base a proyecciones de consumo de maÃz para
etanol (USDA) y la productividad americana de los
últimos 3 años. Fuentes UNICA, RFA, USITC.
7Brazilian Learning Curve
8More Trends
- Cellulosic Ethanol
- Bio-Butanol
- Use the whole sugar can plant
9TrendsPotential for Bioelectricity
Source UNICA
10Opportunities
- New bioenergy businesses (IDB cooperation US 675
k US 250 k) - Support Agroenergy policy
- Support the Guyana Agroenergy Board
- Screening and Evaluation Unit
- Support for capacity building and training
- Matching fund mechanism (up to US 50,000) to
promote bioenergy - Cogeneration in Guyana could replace 40-50 of
installed capacity - Savings in diesel and fuel oil imports
- Ethanol for E10 (ECLAC study) and eventually
export - Savings in gasoline imports
11Opportunities (Cont.) What could the CREBAP
program do?
12Threats
- Business as usual (inefficiency in the
agriculture process and production chain) - Deforestation
- Competition with other crops (food)
- Social issues
13Contact information
- Christiaan Gischler Sustainable Energy
Specialist - christiaang_at_iadb.org (202) 623-3411
- Washington D.C. USA
- Inter-American Development Bank