Brazil to test first power plant powered by sugarcane alcohol. Bioethanol to ensure self-sufficiency

Brazil has taken a key step in the diversification of its energy matrix. This time it is not about solar parks or new advances in wind energy, but about something much more familiar in its territory: ethanol, a fuel that is already part of its day-to-day life and that now points to a new objective, until now little explored: the generation of electricity on a large scale. With a strategic alliance between the Finnish company Wärtsilä and the Bra…

Finland's Wärtsilä, in collaboration with Brazilian company Energetica Suape, will test the world's first large-capacity internal combustion engine powered by ethanol at the Suape II power plant. The project aims to demonstrate the potential of alcohol as a clean energy source. Brazil is the largest producer and consumer of ...