| Project name: |
CAMIL Itaqui Biomass Electricity Generation |
| Summary: |
CAMIL is a rice mill company, which produces paddy rice and rice oil for the internal market. The rice mills generate huge amounts of biomass residues (mainly rice husks). This project consists in a biomass electricity unit with 4.2 MWe of installed capacity using rice husks residues as fuel. |
| Location: |
Itaqui, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Type: |
Burning Agricultural Residue |
| Quantity: |
57,341 tons CO2e per year |
| Offset period: |
From 2001 for 7 years |
| Operator: |
CAMIL Alimentos S/A
Dr. Afonso Escobar street, 1193
Itaqui
Rio Grande do Sul
99650-000 |
| Certification: |
Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism |
