Its cogeneration units produce 537 megawatts of electricity annually from sugarcane bagasse--enough to power a small city like Belgaum.
Alternative fuels such as bagasse and shoot are used instead of bunker oil.
Narendra's obsession with sweating assets and using "every piece of bagasse and drop of molasses" spurred Renuka's early move into producing ethanol and power.
With sorghum, the ethanol distillery can put the bagasse (plant stalks) to use as a boiler fuel, generating heat for distillation and steam for electricity.
Now BP will try to continue where Verenium left off, trying to turn sugarcane bagasse, agricultural waste, and wood products into liquid fuels for transportation.
The market for agave could be diversified by using agave harvest residue (e.g. leaves), and bagasse (the residue left after the juices have been extracted) for use as production.
Demand for tequila 100% agave sugars has recently increased (19.82% annual increase between 1995 and 2008), and the resulting increase in residue and bagasse can be used for second-generation biofuel production.
The entire mill is run year-round on that bagasse.
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The microbe, discovered by microbiologists from the University of Massachusetts at the Quabbin Reservoir in western Massachusetts, digests and ferments a wide variety of feedstocks, including corn stover, corn cobs, switchgrass, and sugar cane bagasse.
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Industry heavyweights like Cosan (CZZ) are also researching ways to make fuel ethanol friendly for jet fuel, and turn sugarcane bagasse, the leafy waste of the cane stalks after they are crushed into sugar molasses, into second generation ethanol, as well.
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