India will supply E20 fuel from April 2023

India is ready from the supply side to launch E20 and the E20 fuel will be available from April 2023, said Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri. “We have not only achieved 10 percent ethanol blending five months before the target, but we will achieve 20 percent blending target five years

Maruti to develop E85-compatible flex-fuel engines

Maruti Suzuki is working on new flex-fuel engines compatible with up to 85 percent ethanol blended petrol (E85 fuel). Vehicles equipped with these engines will be capable of running on a wide spectrum of ethanol-petrol fuel blends, including pure petrol and E85. E85 petrol has 51 to 85 percent ethanol. It requires a re-engineering of

EPA’s renewable fuel standard to ethanol encourages US states to for it  

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule for the Renewable Fuel Standard June 3 that sets a goal of 15 billion gallons of conventional renewable fuels for 2022. Some Midwestern states are turning to higher blends of ethanol in hopes it will help them respond to rising fuel costs. Ohio Gov. Mike

Sugar producers in India happy with ethanol blending and rising demand

The government’s decision to implement the ethanol blending target of 20% to 2025-26 from 2030 has brought an added optimism to sugar producers in the country. Now, under the renewed target, 10% blending of fuel-grade ethanol with petrol should happen this year, increasing gradually each year thereafter and reaching 20% by 2025-26. India’s sugar industry

Ethanol procurement price increased by OMCs

State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) – Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) – have decided to procure ethanol to blend with fuel before selling it. The OMCs have announced an increase in ethanol procurement price for a six months period ending November 30, 2022. This

Biofuel blending mandates for 2022 issued by US EPA

The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) set biofuel blending mandates for 2022 at 20.63 billion gallons and retroactive volume mandates for 2021 at 18.84 billion gallons and for 2020 at 17.13 billion gallons. EPA denied oil refiners’ exemption petitions, but said it would allow extra time for small refiners to meet their 2020 blending obligations.

Indian cabinet approves advancing 20% ethanol blending target to 2025-26

The Indian Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at its meeting approved the amendments to the National Policy on Biofuels. It has approved advancing the target of blending 20 per cent ethanol in petrol by 5 years to 2025-26. The cabinet has also approved to allow more feedstocks for the production of biofuels in

Ethanol blending in petrol reached 9.99% in India

The level of ethanol blending in petrol in India has reached 9.99 per cent, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said. India had targetted 10 per cent ethanol blending in petrol by the end of 2022 and 20 per cent blending by 2030. The Centre has also targetted 5 per cent blending of biodiesel with diesel

Use of waste biomass can make India achieve 20% ethanol blending

India had set a goal of reducing its crude oil import by 10 per cent by 2022. The fulfilment of the goal will largely depend on the government’s ability to meet the recently revised target of blending 20 per cent ethanol in petrol (E20) by 2025 instead of the earlier deadline of 2030. As things

Hydrise Group ethanol plant in MP will start production in 2023

Anuj Kumar Agarwal, promoter of Hydrise Group got funding of $0.66 million from Athena Capitals to set up an ethanol plant in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh. The ethanol plant is currently in final stages and expected to start production in the year 2023. The plant will benefit farmers and fast-track the programme of ethanol blending with