PM at India Energy Week launch: Ethanol blending allowed up to 20% in petrol

Domestically produced ethanol has been identified as an opportunity to reduce oil imports, in an effort to achieve energy independence

EU biofuel targets fuelling inflation: study

Land meant for food crops being used to grow biofuel crops; may push up food prices by 36 per cent by 2020

The right blend

Ethanol, a safer alternative to MTBE, will now be mixed with petrol to curb emissions. Lopamudra Banerjee analyses the impact of this environment-…

India’s ethanol mandate comes with some hidden trade-offs

India’s push for ethanol has raised concerns about its impact on the environment & food security

India's 20% ethanol-petrol blending target advanced to 2025

Currently, 8.5% of ethanol is blended with petrol in India

India's ethanol equation

Ethanol blending in petrol is an effective way of increasing domestic petrol availability and for that, all-round efforts need to be made to …

Centre hikes prices of ethanol to bail out sugar industry

The revised price will push more sugar mills to produce ethanol and increase their revenue

How ethanol tax in some states is affecting crisis-ridden sugarcane farmers

State taxes are affecting inter-state supply for ethanol, which could, otherwise, generate additional income for farmers

Germany in transition

From an economy addicted to coal and nuclear energy, Germany is fast transforming into one driven by renewables. Its aim is to demonstrate to the …

India's ethanol roadmap : The targets and challenges

E20 material compliant and E10 compliant vehicles may be rolled out across the country from April 2023

Ethanol, other biofuels will see reduced demand in 10 years

Declining demand for transport fuel will lead to reduced demand for ethanol in the US and EU—main markets for ethanol

Sugarcane farmers' crisis: bumper harvest turns bane

Thanks to a high yield sugarcane variety, India witnessed bumper harvests in the last 3 seasons, but sugar prices have fallen and sugarcane …

India’s green push for second-generation bioethanol

Could diversify feedstock basket, help secure long-term sustainability with improved economics 

Wasting an opportunity to create safer alternatives to fossil fuels

Generating methane from organic wastes might be a more rational choice than pinning hopes only on coal

Was ethanol the reason for the ban on broken rice exports

A look at official data shows that the allocation of Food Corporation of India rice for ethanol was drastically increased in 2021-22, as compared …

As told to Parliament (December 22, 2022): Around 60% of India prone to earthquakes

Around 11% of India falls in Zone V, which is the most seismically active 

Second-generation bioethanol: It is time to launch it headlong

Reactive pipeline technology could be a game changer for bioethanol production; it can reduce crude oil imports and bolster India’s energy …

Wood-based jet fuel may reduce carbon emission, but what about the cost?

Whether isobutanol is made from wood waste or corn, the financial cost of this new fuel is proving to be a major deterrent to industry-wide adoption

Centre relaxes environmental clearance for sugar mills

MoEFCC notification comes at a time when sugar mills owe Rs 22,000 crore to farmers for cane supplied in 2017-18

India's ambitious plan to boost biofuel likely to fail without roadmap

In Chhattisgarh, which was supposed to emerge as a biofuel hub by 2014, the plan for establishing biodiesel industry never took off

Private sector aggressively pursuing production of green hydrogen: Hardeep Singh Puri at G20 event

IEA Director Fatih Birol says the renewable energy sector is not limited to climate goals, is an integral part of the economy today  

How safe is your hand sanitiser

The government hasn’t had much control over India’s hand sanitising manufacturers, who have mushroomed amid the COVID-19 pandemic 

As told to Parliament (December 13, 2022): 130 sq km of forest land set to be diverted in Great Nicobar Island

Mitigation measures have been proposed for the ‘sustainable development’ projects

Financing emissions from jets and cows

Environmental scientist Robert Goodland , who served the World Bank Group between 1978 and 2001 is credited with authoring some of the Bank's …

Empty Promises

The high-level conference at Rome was called to find a way out of the global food crisis. A series of consultations with experts preceded this …