Brazilian president inaugurates first commercial sugarcane-based biogas plant

In Brazil, Xinhua news agency reports the president has inaugurated Raizen Energia’s 21 MW biogas facility, the country’s first commercial scale biogas installation using sugarcane byproducts. It has the capacity to power 62,000 homes. Electricity produced from the facility will be distributed through the national grid, although the president highlighted in his speech about the uses of methane as transportation fuel in addition to power. Currently, ethanol from corn and sugarcane provides 17% of the country’s energy mix.