The ICE is studying the possibility of paying sugar cane farmers to generate electricity from waste products generated during the sugar cane harvest.  Some producers generate energy for their own use, but the new project would allow them to invest in larger plants which would produce excess energy which could be sold.

This energy would be less expensive, non-polluting and would be available in the dry season, when ICE requires energy from non hydro sources due to lower water levels in the resevoirs.

Other renewable energy sources being studied:

- Palm Oil producers also have waste products that could be sources of energy, ICE has programs to study other agroindustrial processes for possible products.

- Waste Management by cities:  cities could burn or compost their trash which produces heat that can be harvested as energy.

- Solar energy has been used in outlying areas off the grid.  It is not cost effective in areas that have power lines installed.

- Biogas produced from dung can give farms energy they need to run machines on the farm and keeps them from polluting the environment with animal dung.