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Renuka sugars, HPCL plan ethanol unit in M'rashtra
Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 7, 2010, 1:23 IST
First such tie-up between a sugar and a petroleum company.
Shree Renuka Sugars is looking to set up an integrated sugar-cum-ethanol plant with oil marketing company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) in Maharashtra.
07/09/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Sugar ind ready to support ethanol-blending drive
Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 3, 2010, 1:15 IST
Offers 1,000 million litres ethanol to OMCs.
The sugar industry has offered to supply around 1,000 million litres ethanol to oil marketing companies for blending it with petrol.
03/09/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Maharashtra ethanol makers to keep 50% alcohol for petrol blending
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai August 31, 2010, 0:20 IST
Demand that the deposit fee sought by OMCs be cut to 1% from 10%.
Ethanol manufacturers in Maharahstra, in a serious bid to supply ethanol for five per cent blending with petrol, have decided to reserve half their alcohol stock exclusively for this.
31/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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The logic of India’s energy policy
Meghnad Desai
During the passage of the Nuclear Liability Bill, the Prime Minister pointed out that India had to retain the option of using nuclear power as a source of energy. Put it this way, the use of civilian nuclear energy is a ‘just in case’ option.
30/08/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
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Brazil Taps Small Farmers For Biofuels Campaign
With its biofuels business increasingly dominated by giant corporations, Brazil is seeking to extend its biofuels sector to include farmers like Lucas Scariot, who makes around $10,000 per year from selling grain.
For the past three years, Scariot has sold soy beans at a premium over market prices to a biofuels
25/08/2010
Planet Ark (Australia)
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India-U.S. clean energy research centre established
Narayan Lakshman
WASHINGTON: India and the U.S.
21/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Waste food to generate cooking gas in city soon
Left over food and vegetable waste discarded in the garbage could soon be used to generate bio cooking gas (alternative to LPG) in the Capital.
20/08/2010
Pioneer (New Delhi)
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High on highway: A ‘green’ car that runs on whisky
London: Whisky lovers have another excuse to enjoy a dram — scientists in Scotland unveiled a biofuel to help power cars developed from the by-products of the distillation process.
Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have developed the biofuel and filed a patent for the product, which they said could be used to fuel ordinary cars without any special adaptations.
19/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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A peg of whisky could power your car
A peg of Scotch whisky can reduce carbon emission too as scientists in Scotland have developed a biofuel from the by-products of whisky which can be used to power cars.
Edinburgh Napier University has filed a patent for the biofuel which has been created in two years by the university’s Biofuel Research Centre.
The university now plans to create a "spin-out" company to take the fuel to the m
19/08/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Sugar lobby wins ethanol round I
IT WAS a big win, at least for now, for the powerful Maharashtra sugar lobby when the three ministers from the state on the ethanol GoM clinched the contentious price of Rs 27/litre for ethanol at the CCEA on Monday.
Under intense lobbying from ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Murli Deora and Sharad Pawar, the price of ethanol, although only an interim one at present, was pegged at the CCEA at
18/08/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
