OMC policies hindering ethanol production in India, says ISMA

The Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) director-general Abinash Verma said that the policies of oil marketing companies (OMCs) and other factors are restricting the output of ethanol in the country. While addressing the members of the Parliament (MPs) at the Lok Sabha Secretariat, he said that the country has achieved 9.6% ethanol blending with petrol

Assam Petrochemicals Ltd to export ethanol and methanol

Assam’s state-run Assam Petrochemicals Ltd (APL) will soon start exporting 300 TPD (tones per day) ethanol and methanol to Bangladesh. However, the quantity will be finalized only after the G2G agreement, said a senior official of APL. The proposal took a final shape in a meeting between the officials from Bangladesh and APL in the

Reduce Sugar production, increase conversion to ethanol: Gadkari

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari has given a clarion call to the sugar factories to make a shift to conversion of sugar into ethanol, in line with the realities of changing times and the needs of the nation. The Minister issued a warning to leaders of sugar and allied industries that

World’s first Ethanol production refinery from bamboo to be built in India

An agreement signed between a Hyderabad-based company and a farmers’ company in Maharashtra’s Latur, for building world’s first ethanol production refinery project from bamboo with a daily capacity of 30,000 litres. The agreement was signed in Hyderabad between Nagarjuna Group, Hyderabad and Lodga Bamboo Industries in Latur district between Dr Banibrata Pande for Nagarjuna Group

Indian refiners planning to ramp up ethanol storage

The state-run fuel retailers in India are considering increasing ethanol storage capacity by 51 per cent, as the country is targeting to double the biofuel’s blending with gasoline to 20 per cent by 2025 according to a director at Indian Oil Corp refinery. India is one of the largest importers of oil which relies on

Sugar mills in Maharashtra file bids to supply ethanol

Sugar mills in Maharashtra have submitted bids to supply 111 crore litres of ethanol to oil marketing companies (OMC) for the ethanol supply year 2021-22. This is expected to divert over 12 lakh tonne of sugar in the state with most of the ethanol being produced either from B heavy, C heavy molasses or directly

Sugar mills tender to supply 94 crore litres of ethanol

Sugar mills in Maharashtra have filled tender to supply 94 crore liters of ethanol to the Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) for the Ethanol Supply Year (December- November) 2021-22. This is expected to divert 12 lakh tonnes of sugar in the state with most of the ethanol being produced either from B heavy or directly from

Ethanol no better than gasoline, study finds

Though popular with Midwestern farmers and long hailed as an environmentally friendly alternative to imported oil, ethanol made from corn isn’t actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds. But UW-Madison researchers say there are home-grown alternatives being developed at laboratories in Madison. Corn-based ethanol, which accounts for virtually all US biofuels, doesn’t really

At bioenergy crossroads, should corn ethanol be left in the rearview mirror?

Transportation is responsible for a larger share of greenhouse gas emissions than any other sector of the US economy, making biofuels a promising strategy to mitigate human-driven climate change. The US Renewable Fuel Standard, created by 2007 legislation, mandates that such fuels partially replace petroleum-based ones. So far, however, the mandate has been nearly entirely

EIA increases fuel ethanol production forecast for 2022

The U.S. Energy Information Administration increased its forecast for 2022 fuel ethanol production in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, released Feb. 8. The forecast for 2023 ethanol production was maintained. The EIA currently expects U.S. ethanol production to average 1.03 million barrels per day this year, up from the 1.02 million barrels per day forecast made