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Support for the Implementation of the US-Brazil Biofuels Bilateral Agreement

Start Date: 08/09/2007
End date: 08/09/2009

Support sustainable bio-fuels/energy projects/programs to diversify the energy production mix to improve economic sustainability and competitiveness of communities’ socio-economic conditions, initially within the project countries to further extend to the countries of the Western Hemisphere.   

Project ID: US-Brazil Biofuels
Country: Regional
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Specific Topics: Biofuels
Financing: U.S. Department of State
Execution: Energy and Climate Change Division, OAS Department of Sustainable Development
Status: En ejecucion
Grant: 2,490,000
Co-financing: 200,000
Project Cost: 2,690,000
Contact: Francisco Javier Burgos

Results

Increased sustainability of the electric and agricultural sector as evidenced by reductions in fuel costs for transport, increased trade activities related to bio-fuels, reductions in electricity rates and increases in both the reliability of the electrical system and the security of the energy supply; such effects will consequently translate into an overall increase in economic welfare and a decrease in poverty rates while improving the environmental and health conditions of the target country.

Projects archives

Dominican Republic - Feasibility Study - FGV (7.75 MB)
DR - Project Final Report (6.58 MB)
El Salvador - Feasibility Study - FGV (6.91 MB)
El Salvador - Feasibility Study - Final Report (24.16 MB)
El Salvador - Tech. Ass. Final Project Report (5.11 MB)
Saint Kitts and Nevis - Feasibility Study - FGV (4.63 MB)

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