Reuters: Energy companies, gobbling up land and pouring money into projects along Peru’s northern coast, are betting they can leverage the country’s impending access to US markets to make it an important producer of sugar cane-based ethanol. So far, eight companies have invested some $480 million to develop the popular alternative fuel in Peru. Most intend to export it to the United States, the world’s largest ethanol consumer, which will give Peruvian ethanol imports free entry starting next …