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Financing biofuels and Jatropha plantation projects partly
through CDM – November 30, 2006
Eco-Carbone’s Malian Jatropha Project:
A profitable biodiesel project in accordance with
sustainable development
UNCTAD/EXPERT MEETING
Financing biofuels and Jatropha plantation projects partly through CDM
Gen va , Expert Meeting, November 30, 2006
Financing biofuels and Jatropha plantation projects partly
through CDM – November 30, 2006
• Well known plant in Africa
• Robustness in degraded lands
• High potential and low cost
• No competition with food
• A new source of income
Why Jatropha?
Financing biofuels and Jatropha plantation projects partly
through CDM – November 30, 2006
Project’s model
• Private project financed by Malian and European investors
associated in a joint venture (JV)
• Plantations: 95% managed by contracted farmers, 5% by JV
• Efficient and simple industrial process
• Partnership to be concluded with a biomass boiler owner
• Partnership to be concluded with industrial biodiesel buyers
• Possibility to supply also villages with raw biodiesel
Plantations
Pressing
Esterification
Shelling
Power
generation
Oil
Biodiesel
Shells
Electricity
Seedcake
Shelled
seeds
Seeds
Financing biofuels and Jatropha plantation projects partly
through CDM – November 30, 2006
Location
N
BAMAKO
Kayes
Sikasso
Segou
Mopti
Kita: 5 000 ha
Koulikoro: 4 000 ha
Cinzana: 3 000 ha
100 km
X
X
X Potential plant location
Ségou
Financing biofuels and Jatropha plantation projects partly
through CDM – November 30, 2006
• 12,000 hectares of Jatropha plantation
• 11,000 tons/year of biodiesel
• 52,000 MWh/year of electricity from
biomass combustion
• 1,700 tons/year of glycerol
• around 1,000 jobs created
• 1 Mt CO2e avoided over the first 6 years
which helps financing the investment
Production
Project’s progress:
• Jatropha test of six different
provenances have started.
• Industrial plant design is
ready
Financing biofuels and Jatropha plantation projects partly
through CDM – November 30, 2006
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