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 flexfuel 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 alt
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