5.2.2. Sorghum Grain Ethanol

This measure considers the partial substitution of gasoline with ethanol produced from grain sorghum, through gasoline-ethanol blends. In this measure we adopted the technical assumptions used in [37] (see Table 9) for this measure, where it is observed that a surface of 2.6 Mha is required to grow sorghum grain crops to introduce grain sorghum ethanol. The ethanol production is planned to begin in year 6 with a processing plant that produces 190 ML/year and this capacity grows to a total of 28 plants with the same capacity by year 25. Finally, the cost structure given by [37] it is also assumed for this measure.
