Brazil's Usina Moema Acucar e Alcool to Increase Current Power Capacity Generation

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Usina Moema Acucar e Alcool (Orindiúva, Sao Paulo, Brazil) will increase power generation capacity in the company's five sugar plants. The total investment will be up to $175 million.

Moema's sugar facilities, located in Sao Paulo, will increase the company's bagasse-based power unit capacities to achieve 37 megawatts (MW) each in Pontes Gestal and Ouroeste Sugar Plants; 30 MW in Itapagipe Sugar Plant; 46 MW in Frutal Sugar Plant; and 48 MW in Guaraci Sugar Plant. The energy produced will be used to supply the factory's needs, while the overrun will be sold to the grid.

All five cogeneration units are expected to be operational by early 2013. The engineering, procurement and construction contractors will be selected starting in November 2010, and the construction is planned to begin in February 2011.

Usina Moema Acucar e Alcool started operations in 1982 in Orindiúva (Sao Paulo). The five factories' cane-crushing capacity rose to almost 9 million tons in 2009, with a total output of 500,000 tons of sugar and an ethanol production of 430 million liters.

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