–Started in the 1970’s as a solution to rising oil prices and declining sugar cane prices

–The emissions from sugar cane ethanol fuels is compensated by the carbon absorbed from the environment as the sugar cane grows

–Avoided the emissions of 9.4 megatons of carbon emissions

•PROFINA – Incentives for enewable energy

–Encourages independent renewable energy producers to feed power into the national electrical grid

•Large Hydropower Facilities

•The PROCEL Program

–Aims to reduce the unnecessary waste of energy, both on the production and consumer side