From January to September 2018 biomass 20,488 GWh in the National Interconnected System (SIN), up 9% over the same period in 2017, according to a new survey conducted by the Sugarcane Industry Union (UNICA).
Based on data from the Electric Energy Trading Chamber (CCEE), UNICA points out that the amount of electricity bioelectricity produced in Brazil for the grid is equivalent to almost twice the consumption of electricity in Paraguay in 2017.
In addition, the bioelectricity supply also helped save 14% of the water from the hydroelectric reservoirs of the main sub-market of the Brazilian electricity sector, the Southeast / Center-West, which last year accounted for approximately 60% of domestic consumption, according to manager in Bioelectricity at UNICA, Zilmar Souza.
“In the first week of October, these reservoirs were only 22% of capacity, which gives a dimension of how biomass energy has been strategically in the driest and critical period of the year for the electricity sector,” he notes. , the specialist of UNICA. Last Monday (08/10), the energy stored in the reservoirs of the Southeast / Central-West submarket closed at 21.52%.
In September, bioelectricity from the biomass offered to the grid represented 7.1% of the national electricity consumption, or 28% of the volume generated by the State of São Paulo.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.