Roadmap for Ethanol blending In India 2020-25:

Decoding the opportunities in Ethanol Blending in India and how certain sector can benefit out of it.

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Data-facts:
• 98% of India fuel requirement in road transportation is met through fossil fuel.
• Bio fuels only consist about 2% of use for road transportation.

• Ethanol is the important part of biofuel. It is naturally produced from fermentation of sugar by years or via petrochemical process such as ethylene hydration.
• Combined ethanol distillation capacity of India is 684 crore litres

There are different types of Ethanol variants:
1. E-10: In this, 90% of usage is gasoline & 10% Ethanol.
2. E-10 is maximum used in India.
E-20:
3. In this, 80% of usage is gasoline & 20% Ethanol.

The calorific value of ethanol is around 2/3rd of gasoline

Recent Target Improvements:

• National Policy for Biofuel has increased the target of Ethanol Blending to 20% from 10%
• With low quantity around 50% of petrol sold is E10 blended & rest is unblended(E0).
• Current level of Ethanol blending is ~7-8%, & 10% is expected by 2022