{"id":11703,"date":"2023-12-04T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T11:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/?p=11703"},"modified":"2023-12-04T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T11:13:38","slug":"%f0%9f%a7%a7%f0%9f%9a%a8road-map-for-mixing-ethanol-in-petrol-and-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/?p=11703","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f9e7;&#x1f6a8;ROAD MAP FOR MIXING ETHANOL IN PETROL AND DIESEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Policy of Biofuels-2018 notified on 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June, 2018 provided indicative targets of 20% ethanol blending in petrol and 5% biodiesel blending in diesel by 2030.Encouraged by the past 7 years performance under the Ethanol Blending Programme, Government decided to advance the targets of 20% ethanol blending in petrol from 2030 to Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2025-26. The Roadmap for Ethanol Blending in India 2020-25,prepared by an inter-Ministerial Committee, estimated ethanol requirement of 1016 crore litres to achieve 20% blending targets in ESY 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>The current ethanol production capacity of 1364 crore litre is spread across most of the states of the country including in the ethanol surplus states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharastra &amp; Karnataka. This capacity is sufficient to produce the ethanol required to meet the blending targets.<\/p>\n<p>In line with the aforesaid Roadmap, Oil Marketing Companies have achieved 10% ethanol blending during ESY 2021-22 and 12% during ESY 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>The Government, since 2014, has taken several measures to meet the ethanol blending targets which includes expansion of feedstock for production of ethanol; administered price mechanism for procurement of ethanol under the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme; lowered GST rate to 5% on ethanol for EBP Programme; amendment in Industries (Development &amp; Regulation) Act for free movement of ethanol across states for blending; interest subvention scheme for enhancement and augmentation of ethanol production capacity in the country; regular floating of Expression of Interest (EoI) by Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) for procurement of ethanol.<\/p>\n<p>This information was given by the THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS SHRI RAMESWAR TELI, in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Policy of Biofuels-2018 notified on 4th\u00a0June, 2018 provided indicative targets of 20% ethanol blending in petrol and 5% biodiesel blending in diesel by 2030.Encouraged by the past 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11704,"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions\/11704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripuravisions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}