Swiss agency investing in Cuban waste-to-energy project using coffee, rice and forest residues

In Cuba, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (CUSUDE) announced that it will invest in a renewable energy biomass program through 2011 in Eastern Las Tunas, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo provinces, possibly extending to central and western Cuba at a later date. The primary goal of the project, which has received $3 million in funding to date, is biogas production from coffee, rice and forest wastes.

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