UK company to set up biomass power plants in Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

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.

More:
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/channels/process-engineering/uk-company-to-set-up-biomass-power-plants-in-cuba/1007111.article

[Peace Patriot]

1. Good news! I wish this was happening a million times over, everywhere! nt

[Billy Burnett]

2. So, even though Fidel was against biofuels as fuel instead of food ...

... this still goes forward.

That's some 2-bit dicktatership over there, Fidel/Raul can't even dictate. :rofl:


Viva Cuba!

[Judi Lynn]

3. I recall hearing President Fidel Castro also was strenously opposed to dollarization,

years ago, but the government rushed right ahead and did it, anyway, leading to a spectacular mess.

Funny how US corporate media neglected to mention this detail to the U.S. public, isn't it?

[social_critic]

4. Spectacular mess?

The spectacular mess is the communist system, which they try to patch ad hoc year after year, gradually sinking in the swamp of their own creation. I was discussing this subject with some Cubans today, and the common wisdom is the dictatorship is nearly terminal - it's like a mangy horse taking its last dying steps. When it's dead, we'll give it a suitable burial, and life will go on.