Biofuel Plant in South Africa to Begin Construction
(Biofuels International) A major renewable energy plant in Jozini, KwaZulu-Natal, which has been in planning for seven years, is set to start preliminary work in September.
Silvapen Group, the South African – Brazilian company, plans to build the proposed R1.2 billion (€80 million) sugar-to-ethanol distillery using Brazilian technology.
The distillery, which is set on 15,000 ha of land, in the middle of a sugarcane, plans to produce 1.5 million cubic litres of ethanol per year to meet demands of the local area.
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Penalto Miguel, Silvapen’s chief executive emphasises: ‘The operation will therefore be electricity free. We will be generating 94 megawatts of power a day, and as we will only need 10mw, we will sell the surplus to Eskom for the national grid.’ READ MORE