The company, which is part of the massive Odebrecht conglomerate but also 33% owned by the Japan’s Sojitz Corporation, has five sugar-cane processing plants in operation and four in development.
This year, it expects an output of 781GWh of electricity generated from bagasse — the fibrous residue remaining after the cane is crushed.
By 2012, ETH intends to process 40 million tonnes of cane with an installed biomass electricity capacity of up to 1.3GW,
