Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri announces a roadmap for ethanol blending in petrol beyond 20%. He aims to blend up to 20% ethanol in petrol sold across the country by 2025 to lower its dependence on crude oil imports. The government acknowledges that unlike Brazil, India lacks the luxury of abundant arable land for biofuel …
New Delhi: Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Saturday called on sugar mills to explore alternatives to sugarcane for ethanol production, pushing for a multi-dimensional approach to biofuel manufacturing. Speaking at an event organized by the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories, Shah said India would achieve its 20 per cent ethanol blending target by 2025-26, ahead of the original 2030 …
With gas prices surging amid Russia’s invasion and inflation rising, US president unveils new plan for corn-based fuel. “Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world,” Biden told workers at POET Bioprocessing, the largest biofuels producer in the country. “The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to issue an emergency waiver allowing E15 …
This is one reform initiative that is set to be a big positive change in the use of fossil fuel to run country’s transportation sector. The central government has proposed to advance the deadline for blending 20 per cent ethanol in petrol from the earlier announced 2030 to 2024. The use of 20 per cent doped petrol or E20 decreases …
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