PERÚ - Observatory for Renewable Energy in Latin America and

Perú- Products I and II
2.4.8 Environmental Aspects
As part of the contribution to the sustainable development, the company Agro
Industrial Paramonga S.A.A. makes a control of its environmental aspects so that
operations develop without generating negative impacts in the environment and
over the populations of the area of influence.
The project does not affect agricultural lands of the area or its production, because
the used fuel is obtained as a waste of the productive activity.
From the setting in operation of the watertube boiler, that uses as fuel exclusively
bagasse, there has been a significant pollution reduction in comparison to what
was generated before the implementation of the project when the two boilers that
consumed oil and bagasse were used for the production of energy. This change of
technology contributes to the improvement of the air quality, fundamentally, by
the reduction of particles in emissions, which at the same time has influence in
the problem’s reduction perceived by the contiguous population.
AIPSAA has also a program of environmental monitorings that are executed to
compiling information of the behavior of variables that determine the
environmental performance of its operations, in order to take preventive, control
and corrective necessary measures.
The most important variables that are monitored are the air quality and emissions.
This task is entrusted to a specialized and prestigious consultant that performs the
trimestrial monitoring using four stations of high volume and isokinetic
measurements. The results of the executed analyses have demonstrated that the
implementation of the cogeneration station with bagasse has had a significant
repercussion in the improvement of the air quality. So much so that currently
meets the national environmental quality standards. For the knowledge of the
population, the results of these analyses are published in the bulletin “Paramonga
al día” (AIPSAA, 2011c).
At a macro level, the station “Paramonga I” displaced a percentage of the
expensive electric generation as the generation with bagasse present lower cost
than the generation based on fossil fuels.
The project is expected to move 85 300 tCO2e per year and a total of 170 600
tCO2e for the first period of accreditation, generating an equivalent quantity of
certified emissions (MINAM, 2011j).
2.4.9 Found Barriers
During the project’s development there were changes in the rules for
cogeneration, which delay the obtaining of generation concession with renewable
energy resources (RER). This change in rules was referred specifically to
Equivalent Electric Efficiency values and the relation Electric Power – Useful
Heat, registered in Cogeneration Regulations.
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