{"id":87355,"date":"2020-08-21T00:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2020-08-21T00:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:45:57","slug":"explained-what-does-the-govts-move-to-increase-bioethanol-in-petrol-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-does-the-govts-move-to-increase-bioethanol-in-petrol-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What does the govt\u2019s move to increase bioethanol in petrol mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The government has set targets of 10% bioethanol blending of petrol by 2022 and to raise it to 20% by 2030 under the Ethanol Blended Programme (EBP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Ethanol Blended Petrol(EBP) programme: <\/strong>It<strong> <\/strong>was launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Petroleum &amp; Natural Gas (MoP&amp;NG).<\/li><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To achieve blending of Ethanol with Petrol with a view to reduce pollution, conserve foreign exchange and increase value addition in the sugar industry enabling them to clear cane price arrears of farmers.<\/li><li><strong>Implementation:<\/strong> The Government is implementing the programme through Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>1G and 2G Bioethanol:<\/strong> 1G bioethanol plants utilise sugarcane juice and molasses, byproducts in the production of sugar as raw material while 2G plants utilise surplus biomass and agricultural waste to produce bioethanol.<\/li><li><strong>Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN (Jaiv Indhan- Vatavaran Anukool fasal awashesh Nivaran) Yojana: <\/strong>It was launched in 2019 to provide financial support to Integrated Bioethanol Projects using lignocellulosic biomass and other renewable feedstock.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The government has set targets of 10% bioethanol blending of petrol by 2022 and to raise it to 20% by 2030 under the Ethanol Blended Programme (EBP). Facts: Ethanol Blended Petrol(EBP) programme: It was launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Petroleum &amp; Natural Gas (MoP&amp;NG). Aim: To achieve blending of Ethanol with Petrol&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-does-the-govts-move-to-increase-bioethanol-in-petrol-mean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What does the govt\u2019s move to increase bioethanol in petrol mean?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5108],"class_list":["post-87355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ethanol-blended-programme-ebp","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704939250},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}