"Brazil has everything, and a little more, to become the biomass Saudi Arabia. We have land, labour, biodiversity, extensive territorial area, and sun, a lot of sun, all year round. It is possible to turn Brazil into an enormous natural energy powerhouse".

Professor Bautista Vidal
Brazilian authority in energetic matrices 

The scarcity of world oil reserves and of other fossil fuels and by-products, such as coal and diesel, is currently one of the deepest international concerns. The scientific community, particularly in technological institutes of the industrialised nations, is conducting researches on fossil fuels, based on radical strategic changes and new energetic matrices.

Within this scenario, Brazil with its natural characteristics, gathers all conditions to free itself from the uncomfortable dependence on oil and its by-products. In Brazil it is possible to preserve natural reserves and, from them, extract pure and renewable energy, taking advantage of its privileged abundance in natural resources, achieving autonomy, sovereignty, and transforming itself into the world’s renewable and environment-friendly energy supplier.

The sun energy that irradiates on the Brazilian subcontinent in a day, is equivalent to the energy produced in 24 hours by 360,000 thousand ITAIPU power plants. Biomass energy is renewable and clean, non-pollutant, and unlimited. Green energy can take Brazil from the Third to the First World.

For many years, Brazil underwent a situation of political, economical and social uncertainties, which seriously jeopardised its productive activities. This scenario generated habits focused on immediate benefits as a means of survival in a competitive environment. Today, Brazil is economically stable economic and has a bright future ahead, due to the opening of its economy to the international market. In these conditions, modernisation becomes a priority, since the competitive market demands serious planning, in the medium and long term.

Infrastructure supply is essential for providing support to development. In most of Brazil’s regions, energy supply is among the determinant factors for many projects. In agribusiness and in the forest-based industry, the development process is closely related to its capacity of generating its own solutions. One of these aspects is the generation of energy from its own activity.

Forests cover approximately 66% of Brazil’s territory. This percentage is recognised by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as one of the highest in the world. However, Brazil is responsible for a conversion rate for soil use of 0.6%, which is considered low.

Brazil has one of the widest biodiversities and the largest reserve of tropical forests in the world, as well as a large share in resources coming from planted temperate forests. In the primary sector, agricultural frontiers are gaining space, with large plantation systems such as soybean, corn, cotton, rice, and sugarcane, among others.