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Renewable Energy<br />

Important conclusions, based in the social production cost figures for the period 1981/87 are:<br />

ethanol is competitive with oil prices already in the range <strong>of</strong> US$ 21-25 per barrel <strong>and</strong> there is a<br />

falling cost trend. Figure 1 shows in a more transparent way the net social benefit <strong>of</strong> ethanol<br />

production in the Center-South region <strong>of</strong> Brazil.<br />

Results for the Northeast region are much less favorable but the share <strong>of</strong> ethanol produced there<br />

is lower than 20% <strong>of</strong> the total production. Table 3 shows that total accumulated social gains to<br />

ethanol production in Brazil, in the period 1978-1987 was -3.5 US$ billions (from which North -<br />

Northeast gain was -2.5 US$ billion) <strong>and</strong> the net present value in 1987 was -5.3 billion.<br />

6 Case D – Impacts on Brazilian Reserves <strong>and</strong> Ethanol Production<br />

A recent publication (Moreira <strong>and</strong> Goldemberg, 1999) presents a table with data considering a<br />

formal microanalysis <strong>of</strong> the trade <strong>and</strong> exchange impacts <strong>of</strong> the alcohol program for the period<br />

1975-1997. This issue was mentioned in Case C but that author did not make any quantitative<br />

evaluation. The result, shown in Figure 2, is very significant. Up to 1996 the total hard currency<br />

savings due to oil importation avoidance adds to 33 billion (1996 U$). Considering this trade<br />

deficit would imply in an increase in the external country debt <strong>and</strong> this debt should be<br />

renumerated at the current country international debt interest rate, total savings reach 50 billion.<br />

If values are taken only for the period 1975-1987, figures are 9.3 <strong>and</strong> 15 billion (historical value)<br />

respectively, overbidding the losses evaluated in Case C.<br />

Figure 2<br />

Hard Currency Savings Due to the Consumption <strong>of</strong> Ethanol Fuel in Brazil<br />

60000<br />

50000<br />

US$BILLION (Current Value)<br />

40000<br />

30000<br />

20000<br />

10000<br />

0<br />

1976<br />

1977<br />

1978<br />

1979<br />

1980<br />

1981<br />

1982<br />

1983<br />

1984<br />

1985<br />

1986<br />

YEAR<br />

Accummulated debt up the year (US$ Million <strong>of</strong> historical value)<br />

1987<br />

1988<br />

1989<br />

1990<br />

1991<br />

1992<br />

1993<br />

1994<br />

1995<br />

1996<br />

Accummulated Value <strong>of</strong> Ethanol Fuel Consumed Up To the Year (US$ Million <strong>of</strong> 1996)<br />

Accummulated debt in the year (US$ Million <strong>of</strong> historical value)<br />

Value <strong>of</strong> Ethanol Fuel Consumed (US$ Million <strong>of</strong> Historical Value)<br />

Source: Moreira <strong>and</strong> Goldemberg, 1999<br />

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