India will probably achieve 20% ethanol blending next month: Hardeep Singh Puri
India is set to achieve 20% ethanol blending ahead of its 2025 target, with a projected completion likely next month. The country’s ethanol blending in petrol reached 18.2% in December 2024, with cumulative blending at 16.4%. The government has reduced the price of rice for ethanol production to support this initiative. Achieving 20% blending will require 1,016 crore liters of ethanol.
India is likely to achieve the 20 per cent ethanol blending probably next month, ahead of original target of 2025, said Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri.
Hardeep Singh Puri, while speaking at the 3rd International Symposium for Thriving Co-Energy in Mobility, said that we were supposed to do 20 per cent ethanol blending by 2030 then we revised the target by Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2025-26 and actually we will probably do it by next month. He thanked industry bodies like SIAM, ISMA, and all other stakeholders involved in making this possible. He added, “I can say that we are not only confident in achieving the 20 percent target in a very short period of time, but we are, like Brazil and elsewhere, beginning to look at what the journey beyond 20 percent will be like.”
Recently, India achieved highest-ever ethanol blending in December 2024. In the ongoing ESY 2024-25, ethanol blending in petrol reached 18.2 percent in December, and cumulative ethanol blending from November 2024 to December 2024 touched 16.4 percent.
As per the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG), under the EBP programme, ethanol supplies have increased from 38 crore liters in the ESY 2013-14 to 707.4 crore litres in ESY 2023-24, achieving an average blending of 14.6% ethanol in petrol.
Recently, in order to boost the ethanol production, Government reduced price of FCI rice for distilleries producing ethanol to Rs 2,250 per quintal, which was earlier fixed at Rs 2,800 per quintal.
The government has set a target of 20% ethanol blending by ESY 2025-26 and is confident of achieving this goal. However, to meet this target, approximately 1,016 crore liters of ethanol will be required, totaling 1,350 crore litres when accounting for other uses.
The push for ethanol blending is part of the government’s effort to reduce reliance on imported fuel.
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Source : Chinimandi
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