Ethanol

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.

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RICH DIVIDENDS FOR OMCs, NO REAL BENEFIT FOR CONSUMERS & FARMERS ONE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION TO ASK over ethanol pricing even as a panel chaired by Planning Commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri examines a “fair” long-term price for the commodity is — who benefits the most? Secondly, how does the end user, the consumer, benefit?

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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.

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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.

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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

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Sanjay Jog / Mumbai August 18, 2010, 0:49 IST Ethanol manufacturers and sugar mills yesterday welcomed the Union cabinet’s approval for five per cent blending of petrol with ethanol and said they were prepared to meet the oil marketing companies’ (OMCs’) requirement of 1,044.5 million litres (of ethanol) between September 1 and August 31 next year. The government has said OMCs would procure

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The government today gave its formal approval to the introduction of five per cent ethanol-blending in petrol, at a price of Rs27 per litre for ethanol.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) cleared the proposal for implementation of the ethanol programme in all states except Jammu and Kashmir, Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep and northeastern states.

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Sujay Mehdudia

NEW DELHI: After months of deliberations, the Union Cabinet on Monday decided to fix an interim price of Rs.27 for a litre of sugarcane-extracted ethanol for blending with petrol.

However, the final price will be set on the recommendations of a committee of experts.

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Sanjay Jog / Mumbai August 2, 2010, 0:32 IST Oil marketing companies (OMCs) will float tenders for ethanol procurement at Rs 27 per litre for a mandatory five per cent blending with petrol, once the Centre issues a notification in this regard.

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