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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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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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Ethanol makers ready to meet demand from oil companies
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
18/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Price of ethanol fixed at Rs 27 a litre for blending
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.
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.
17/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Rs. 27 a litre fixed for ethanol for blending
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.
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.
17/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Butter holds secret to latest biodiesel fuel
KENNETH CHANG
BUTTER IS not the fuel of the future, but it is possible to churn perfectly good diesel fuel out of it.
“It was something we wanted to show could be done,” said Michael J. Haas, a research biochemist at the United States Department of Agriculture.
11/08/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Railways to go green with four bio-diesel plants
Praveen Kumar Singh
New Delhi: Indian Railways has planned to set up four bio-diesel plants to reduce its carbon footprint and take forward its experiment with non-conventional form of energy. It is already planting saplings of jatropha, one of the sources of bio-diesel, on pilot basis in partnership with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).
10/08/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
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OMCs to float tenders for ethanol procurement at Rs 27 per litre
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.
02/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents
Carbon Disclosure Project - Transport report
This new global study by Carbon Disclosure Project based on survey of 291 largest transport companies which include road, rail, sea and air transport reveals that majority of transport firms are not adapting to the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.
Aug 2010
Carbon Disclosure Project

