Shaw Capital Management News: Flex-Fuel Power Plants
Now Opening in Brazil
On January 19th 2010, the first ethanol-fired power plant whirred into action in Brazil.
National
oil company Petrobras (NYSE: PBR) and American systems giant General Electric...
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Shaw Capital Management News: Flex-Fuel Power Plants
Now Opening in Brazil
On January 19th 2010, the first ethanol-fired power plant whirred into action in Brazil.
National
oil company Petrobras (NYSE: PBR) and American systems giant General Electric (NYSE: GE)
pitched in resources to turn an existing 87 MW plant into a flex-fuel power station that can
alternate between natural gas and ethanol (which are both considered alternative fuels, even
though only one is renewable).
GE wants to see how its turbines can be adapted to work in flex-fuel plants in Brazil and in
developed countries like Japan, where clean-burning power plants are gaining momentum.
Brazil s water-dependent hydroelectric infrastructure teeters during the dry season in places
where natural gas isn t easily accessible.
It just so happen that wind power peaks at the opposite
time of the year as the water in running rivers that drives dam-based generation.
Ethanol and wind could supplant natural gas as the primary al
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