Car makers urged to launch green vehicles

The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas said at Auto Expo 2023 that India has also advanced the 20 per cent ethanol blending target to 2024-25 from 2030. The minister asked automobile manufacturers to move from the prototype stage and start introducing green vehicles in the market, saying the time has come for biofuels and

MRPL plans to set up ethanol plant for ethanol

The Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) will set up in Harihar of Davangere district an unit for the production of second generation Ethanol. Ethanol will be produced by processing the waste from jowar and cotton crops. The plant would be operational by 2025 and will produce 60,000 litres of ethanol per day. MRPL will

Ethanol production capacity to increase by 25% in India

The government on said the overall ethanol production capacity in India is expected to go up by 25 per cent to 1,250 crore litres by the end of this year, as proactive steps have been taken for faster clearance of projects. A single-window clearance has been put in place wherein ethanol projects seeking interest subvention

Sri Lanka, Bangladesh show interest to import ethanol from India

Union Minister of road transport and highways in India Nitin Gadkari said that Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have shown their keenness to import ethanol from India. The minister said that he discussed about ethanol with the Governments of both the countries — Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The minister also said that in 15 days he

Ethanol blending in India increased

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said that ethanol blending in petrol rose to 10.17 per cent in July 2022 from 1.53 per cent in 2013-14, Setting up 2G refineries to make ethanol from the paddy stubble in Panipat and bamboo in Numaligarh with the twin objective of reducing pollution along with

JR West to switch to biofuel by 2030

West Japan Railway, known as JR West, plans to introduce biofuel in all its diesel trains, which operate mainly on local lines, by around 2030, a move that will reduce carbon dioxide emissions on nonelectrified sections, which account for nearly 40% of the company’s lines excluding bullet train lines. The move comes as Japan’s railway

Eagle Bulk completes biofuel voyage

Eagle Bulk Shipping announced that one of its bulkers has completed a voyage using biofuel. M/V Stamford Eagle, an Ultramax bulk carrier built in 2016, carried out the voyage in cooperation with the global mining and metallurgy group Eramet and its subsidiary Eramet Norway. The ship used GoodFuels MDF1-100 sustainable biofuel, providing an approximately 80%

India to begin rolling out E20 in April

The Indian government planning to slowly start in E20 blending in April, ahead of the 2025/26 nationwide blending mandate. The country has five 2G ethanol plants currently under development while it has been supporting sugarcane- and grain-based ethanol distillery installation through soft financing and ever-higher prices over the last several years at it ramps up

Oil refiners in Europe bet big on biofuels

Europe’s oil majors’ ‘big bet’ on hydrogen as the transport fuel for the future is not so big in reality, according to a new study on behalf of Transport & Environment (T&E), which shows that investments in biofuels refining are eight times bigger. T&E accuses oil producers of not being serious about investing in genuinely

Petrobras carries out first bio-bunkering

Petrobras carried out the first bunker filling with renewable content in Brazil. At the Rio Grande Terminal (Terig), in Rio Grande do Sul, the vessel “Darcy Ribeiro”, from Transpetro, was fueled with the new fuel with a lower carbon footprint, a mixture of 90% in volume of fossil-based bunker fuel and 10% by volume of