Guyana remains committed to developing a bio-energy sector and several companies are conducting feasibility studies in addition to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) planning a small-scale demonstration ethanol plant at the Albion Estate in Berbice.
The corporation is working with Brazilian firm, USI, to establish the small-scale demonstration ethanol plant at the Albion Estate with part funding from a Technical Cooperation (TC) grant from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud told Stabroek News. In April 2008, the IDB announced that US$925,500 or $187.4 million in grants had been approved to encourage private investment in bio-fuel production here.
“The design of the plant has been completed and forwarded to the IDB for this approval. The plant will produce anhydrous ethanol using either sugar cane juice or molasses,” Persaud said. “The demonstration ethanol plant will be
