With capacity to produce 1000 liters of Bioethanol per day, the Micro Distillery is fed by local crops. This project will be a pilot in producing cooking fuel in Ogbomosho’s rural communities and surroundings. Placed near cassava crops and cashew trees, the equipment uses surplus cassava harvest and cashew apples which are discarded when their nuts are ripe.

This is a pioneering Project in Nigeria and the African continent. Besides the Micro Distillery, NABDA will provide 1000 ethanol cookstoves, known as CleanCook Stoves. These stoves have been designed to be safe and efficient and were chosen as ideal for Africa by Project Gaia, a non-profit dedicated to biofuel promotion and partnerships with governments to develop rural areas socio-economically.

Using Bioethanol will bring two immediate benefits to local producers and inhabitants. First, pollution effects caused by wood and kerosene burning indoors, which offer high risks to women and children’s health and safety, will be greatly reduced. Secondly, new stable markets will be opened for cassava and cashew farmers. In other words, as the cookstoves establish Bioethanol as a stable income source, the fuel produced by Green’s Micro Distillery meets local communities’ needs for modern alternatives to household chores. Additionally, the ethanol-powered electric generator used by the Micro Distillery will provide electricity to some locations.

As time passes, the wide range of uses for Bioethanol will help stabilize the price of cassava. Furthermore, NABDA believes that, with its increased fuel production capacity, the country will be able to achieve energy stability, not to mention strengthen rural communities. This strategy is rooted in reducing imported petroleum-based fuel dependence via small-scale Bioethanol production.

Port au Prince, Haiti’s capital, was almost completely destroyed and the country’s economy, already weakened, sustained damage of 7.8 billion dollars. Sugar, the region’s main export and legacy from colonial times, had already been droppingin market value, no longer being economically viable. Another negative impact of this natural disaster was the immediate decrease in employment rates. In Dessaline, near Les Cayes, a major sugar factorywas forced to close down, laying off several of its employees.

In order to resume business and create new jobs for the affected workers, Jean Francois Hibbert, owner of the sugar factory, found in Green Social Bioethanol’s expertise the support he needed to develop studies to enable a new reality. So much so that the members of the Haitian initiative were selected for the IaDB´s 2012 IDEAS Energy Innovation Contest for the Caribbean.

The cooperative produces cassava flour by planting appropriate stems to the local soil. Thus, they spread rapidly in a special chamber, growing free of pests and diseases.Through special techniques, slope retention, production and enhancement, the average production of these small farmers has increased from 9 t/ha to 20t/ha of cassava, peaking at up to 68t/ha in some properties.

The byproduct of this process is called Manipueira, a substance derived from the pressing of cassava. This substance, if discarded directly into the soil, causes its degradation and contamination. In addition, a third of the cassava starch remains in the Manipueira, which is produced in an average of 500,000 l per month. Green’s proposal for Coofama is to open up an alternative income by tapping Manipueira to produce Bioethanol.

The project’s goal is to install Micro Distilleries to transform this environmental liability into useful bioethanol, or, among the many possibilities, rubbing alcohol for double output and high sell value.

Located in South America, the Republic of Guyana with 214.969 km ² of territory and has as its main products sugar, the extraction of gold, bauxite and timber, shrimp fishing and rice. These elements represent almost 60% of the countries GDP. In partnership with Green Social Bioethanol, the Guyana SugarCorporation (GuySuCo), located in the capital Georgetown, will add value to their sugar production through the cultivation of sugar cane, also for bioethanol means.

The Micro Distillery of Green will be installed for the production of anhydrous ethanol, alcohol especially developed to serve as additive for fuels, comprising 99.5% pure ethanol and 0.5% water. Gasoline mixed with 22% of the product to replace lead, chemical poisonous and harmful to health and the environment. This type of ethanol is cleanerand, if added in correct proportion, does not affect engine performance. Furthermore, through this initiative, the government wants that part of the collection with fuel remain in the country for internal development.