{"id":153901,"date":"2022-05-18T19:32:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T23:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/?p=153901"},"modified":"2022-05-18T19:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T23:32:35","slug":"india-approves-changes-to-national-biofuels-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/india-approves-changes-to-national-biofuels-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"India approves changes to national biofuels policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In India, <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1826265\">the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the Amendments to the National Policy on Biofuels -2018<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The \u201cNational Policy on Biofuels &#8211; 2018\u201d was notified by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on June 4, 2018 in supersession of National Policy on Biofuels, promulgated through the Ministry of New &amp; Renewable Energy, in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Due to advancements in the field of Biofuels, various decisions taken in the National Biofuel Coordination Committee (NBCC) meetings to increase biofuel production, recommendation of the Standing Committee and the decision to advance to introduce Ethanol Blended Petrol with up to twenty per cent ethanol throughout the country from April 1, 2023, amendments are done to the National Policy on Biofuels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The following are the main amendments approved to the National Policy on Biofuels:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00b7<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">to allow more feedstocks for production of biofuels,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00b7<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">to advance the ethanol blending target of 20% blending of ethanol in petrol to ESY 2025-26 from 2030,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00b7<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">to promote the production of biofuels in the country, under the Make in India program, by units located in Special Economic Zones (SEZ)\/ Export Oriented Units (EoUs),<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00b7<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">to add new members to the NBCC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00b7<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">to grant permission for export of biofuels in specific cases, and<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00b7<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">to delete\/amend certain phrases in the Policy in line with decisions taken during the meetings of National Biofuel Coordination Committee.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This proposal will also attract and foster developments of indigenous technologies which will pave the way for Make in India drive and thereby generate more employment.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India, the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the Amendments to the National Policy on Biofuels -2018. The \u201cNational Policy on Biofuels &#8211; 2018\u201d was notified by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on June 4, 2018 in supersession of National Policy on Biofuels, promulgated through the Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}