Webinar on Ethanol Blending in India

Energy security and the transitioning to thriving low carbon economy is critical for a growing nation like India. Blending locally produced ethanol with petrol will help India strengthen its energy security and enable local enterprises & farmers to participate in the energy economy and helps in reducing vehicular emissions. Inspired by the National Biofuel Policy, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, have been taken steps for Ethanol blended petrol (EBP) program where oil marketing companies will sell blended petrol with 20% ethanol till 2025. To increase indigenous production of ethanol, oil companies have planned 11 mega ethanol refineries with an estimated investment of 7500 crores in the states where there is a shortage. This will increase the total distillation capacity by 150 crore liters per annum.   

India’s revolutionary steps towards achieving a gas-based economy like Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) in which clean and green fuel like Compressed Biogas (CBG) will be generated by using organic waste. These projects will help in saving foreign currencies spent on purchase of crude oil, generate employment and promote Make in India.  

However, non-availability of sufficient feedstock, increasing ethanol refineries in North-East region, hazardous weather, inter-state logistics norms, marketing infrastructure are some of the issues concerning development of ethanol-based economy.  

  To discuss the above issues and challenges industry is facing in achieving target of E20 by 2025