Ethanol Production Promotion Policy, 2021
The minister of Bihar State Industries, launched the Ethanol Production Promotion Policy, 2021 on March 19, 2021. After the approval of the policy by the state cabinet, Bihar became the first state in
Ethanol
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Fuel doping: Centre set to rework pricing formula for ethanol supply
IN AN urgent bid to revive the mandatory blending of 5% ethanol with petrol, the Centre is gearing up to rework the formula for pricing ethanol in order to activate the ethanol supply tenders from sugar factories to oil marketing companies (OMCs).
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Fuel doping may be delayed as industries spar
Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI
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Govt may blacklist ethanol makers on failure to supply to OMCs
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai January 05, 2010, 0:57 IST The central government, which has stepped up efforts for the blending of ethanol in a 5 per cent proportion with petrol, has threatened to blacklist ethanol manufacturers if they fail to supply the commodity to oil marketing companies (OMCs).
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Failing the dope test
India defies global trend on mixing ethanol in auto fuel
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Ministries differ over ethanol blending programme
DIFFERENCES have emerged within the government over mandatory blending of petrol with ethanol. Fertilisers & chemicals minister MK Azhagiri has written to the prime minister asking that the November 2009 decision of the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) be reviewed and the mandatory blending be deferred until such time as enough ethanol is available for consumers.
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Time to quit doping
Committing scarce resources like water, land is a bad idea
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Fundamentals of a sustainable US biofuels policy
The United States is investing billions of dollars each year in subsidies and tax breaks to domestic ethanol producers in the hope that biofuels will become a major plank of an energy security and fuel diversification program. Moreover, the investment has grown in recent years.
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Is spiked petrol a good idea?
Any policy on blending ethanol with petrol has to keep in mind the costs involved in ethanol production - excessive use of scarce water to grow sugarcane and the effluents discharged in the process. Rakesh BhartiaRakesh Bhartia CEO, India Glycols Apart from reducing feedstock for the chemicals industry, there are environment costs of the bio-fuel policy that are quite significant
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Ethanol prices dip in Brazil
ETHANOL prices paid to producers in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Govt plans bio-fuel plants in 1 lakh hectare land by 2010
'A quantum of 135 million litre ethanol is being produced from six sugar factories of the State annually. This is being used with petrol as a fuel. There is a target of increasing the use of ethenal to 10 per cent in the State by the end of next year,' said State Bio-fuel Task Force President Y B Ramakrishna.