Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural

Abstract

MOREIRA, José Roberto, COELHO, Suani Teixeira, ALMEIDA, Marcelo Costa et al. Externalidades associadas à geração distribuída de energia elétrica a partir de biomassa na indústria sucroalcooleira. In Procedings of the 5th Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2004, Campinas (SP) [online]. 2004 [cited 14 October 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022004000100061&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

The externalities related with projects of power generation, the cogeneration in the sugarcane industry including, traditionally are not present in the economic and technical evaluations that support decision making. Such fact implies in a distortion in the evaluation between traditional technologies and the ones based on renewable sources. The Brazilian sugarcane industry presents increasing potential for the participation in the segment of power generation. This study presents partial results from a workgroup project concerned on research of the externalities associated to the cogeneration using bagasse from sugar cane processing. Externalities are identified from the distributed generation consequences. The possibility of minimizing negative externalities from the sugarcane industry, caused by the production of sugar and alcohol, with positive externalities from the social benefits of distributed generation is the most important conclusion reached as so far.

Keywords : Setor Sucroalcooleiro; Externalidades; Geração Distribuída.