{"id":465097,"date":"2022-01-31T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=465097"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:17:37","slug":"ethanol-blending-programme-meeting-target-will-be-tough-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ethanol-blending-programme-meeting-target-will-be-tough-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethanol blending programme: Meeting target will be tough going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the country has made steady progress in raising the share of ethanol in auto-fuels, having increased it to 8.1% in Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2020-21 (December-November) from 5% a year earlier, several issues will need to be addressed if the target of 20% blending by 2025 is to be achieved, experts have said.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in June, 2021 advanced the target for achieving 20% ethanol blending to 2025 from 2030 earlier. India imported 185 MT of petroleum at a cost of $55 billion in FY21. Since most petroleum products are used in transport, a successful E20 (20% ethanol blended petrol) programme can potentially save the country $4 billion per annum. Around 16-18 MT of petrol sales is expected to be displaced by ethanol blending, analysts at Crisil have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the country has made steady progress in raising the share of ethanol in auto-fuels, having increased it to 8.1% in Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2020-21 (December-November) from 5% a year earlier, several issues will need to be addressed if the target of 20% blending by 2025 is to be achieved, experts have said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in June, 2021 advanced the target for achieving 20% ethanol blending to 2025 from 2030 earlier. India imported 185 MT of petroleum at a cost of $55 billion in FY21. Since most petroleum products are used in transport, a successful E20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}