Ethanol pipeline gets Rs 16K-crore investment bid in Uttar Pradesh
India’s top sugarcane and sugar producer-state has received investment proposals of more than Rs 16,000 crore in the growing ethanol sector, Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (sugarcane and excise) Sanjay Bhoosreddy has said.
Ethanol is a sugar byproduct and has multiple downstream industrial and chemical sector uses, including blending with fossil fuels, alcohol, medicines, etc.
Uttar Pradesh tops the India chart in ethanol-blended fuel ratio owing to the ready availability and robust logistics supply chain. UP and Maharashtra together account for around 60 per cent of the country’s sugarcane and sugar output.
