Grupo BBF receives delegation from Tanzania to share best practices in renewable energy generation

A group of 18 executives from the Rural Energy Agency took part in a meeting promoted by the Tanzanian Embassy in Brazil and the Beyond Africa Group

São Paulo, June 23, 2023 - During a meeting held on Thursday (22) at the headquarters of Grupo BBF (Brasil BioFuels) in São Paulo, members of the Tanzanian delegation learned about the verticalized business model of the Brazilian company, which operates in sustainable agribusiness from palm cultivation, biotechnology, biofuel production and renewable energy generation.

The agenda included sharing good practices and mapping synergies, given that Tanzania's energy matrix is 83% supplied by renewable sources, mainly biomass.

The country, located in East Africa, has an installed generation capacity of 27GW, 23GW of which from renewable sources. Like Brazil, Tanzania is also suitable for growing oil palm, popularly known as "dendê". In 2020, Tanzania had approximately 650,000 hectares of oil palm plantations and produced around 350,000 tons of palm oil. Palm oil is the most widely consumed cooking oil in Tanzania and can be found in supermarkets and popular shops throughout the country, but it is not yet used to generate renewable energy.

The delegation highly praised the work carried out by Grupo BBF in the Amazon region and the model involving the recovery of degraded areas of the forest. One of the highlights of the presentation was the generation of clean energy for more than 140,000 residents of the northern region served by the Isolated Systems, generated by biofuels produced by the company from palm oil. The executives will keep in touch to advance synergies and share good practices in the renewable energy agenda on a bilateral basis.

About Grupo BBF

Grupo BBF (Brasil BioFuels), a Brazilian company founded in 2008, is the largest palm oil producer in Latin America, with a cultivated area of over 75,000 hectares and a production capacity of 200,000 tons of oil per year. The company is a pioneer in creating sustainable solutions for generating renewable energy in isolated systems, with thermoelectric plants powered by biofuels produced in the region. Its agricultural activity recovers areas that were degraded until 2007 in the Amazon, following the Oil Palm Agroecological Zoning (ZAE), approved by Decree 7.172 of the Federal Government, of May 7, 2010.

The company has created an integrated business model in which it operates from the beginning to the end of the value chain - from sustainable oil palm cultivation, crude oil extraction, biofuel production, biotechnology and renewable energy generation - with assets totaling around R$2.2 billion and activities generating more than 6,000 direct jobs in the northern region of Brazil. Grupo BBF 's operations are located in the states of Acre, Amazonas, Rondônia, Roraima and Pará, comprising 38 thermoelectric plants (25 in operation and 13 under implementation), 3 palm oil crushing units, a soybean extruder and a biodiesel industry.

The company is expanding its supply of biofuels and has signed partnerships for the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO), also called green diesel. The new sustainable fuels will be produced as of 2026 in the country's first Biorefinery, currently under construction in the Manaus Free Trade Zone.

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