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The Government is currently implementing an ethanol-blending program and considering initiatives in the form of mandates for biodiesel. Due to these strategies, the rising population, and the growing energy demand from the transport sector, biofuels can be assured of a significant market in India.
In June 2021, India brought forward to 2025 its target to implement a 20% ethanol-blended auto fuel. India's ethanol blending rate in fuel (at the time of this target revision) is 8%, which is set to increase to 10% by 2022 based on the 'Roadmap for ethanol blending in India 2020-25' released on 5 June (World Environment Day) by Prime Minister ...
Jun.11 -- India Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Secretary Tarun Kapoor discusses India’s plans to cut its dependence on oil imports and how they plan to do it. He speaks exclusively during ...
In 2014, India had 125 ethanol producers, mostly in sugarcane producing states, with a total capacity of 1.25 billion litres of ethanol. [13] India ranks No. 12 in the 2008 Ernst and Young Indices. [14] Earlier in 2003, the national government set a 5% mandated bioethanol blending target for petrol, initiated a program to raise blending ...
The government, based on the National Biofuel Program, established the mandatory use of all gasoline sold in Costa Rica with a blend of around 7.5% ethanol, starting in October 2008. The implementation phase follows a two-year trial that took place in the provinces of Guanacaste and Puntarenas .
Mandatory blending of ethanol was approved in Mozambique, but the percentage in the blend has not been specified. [15] South Africa approved a biofuel strategy in 2007, and mandated an 8% blend of ethanol by 2013. [15] A 2007 Uruguayan law mandates a minimum of 5% of ethanol blended with gasoline starting in January 2015. [16]
India imports 85% of petrol products with import cost of $55 billion in 2020–21, India has set a target of blending 20% ethanol in petrol by 2025 resulting in import substitution saving of US$4 billion or ₹30,000 crore, and India provides financial assistance for manufacturing ethanol from rice, wheat, barley, corn, sorghum, sugarcane ...
India's three Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) are currently setting up 12 second-generation ethanol plants across the country which will collect agriculture waste from farmers and convert it into bio-ethanol. [111] [112] In 2018, India has set a target to produce 15 million tons of biogas/bio-CNG by installing 5,000 large scale commercial type ...