Tamil Nadu sugar mills stuck with ethanol stocks and no way to get rid of them

April 13, 2015 | Meghan Sapp

In India, Tamil Nadu sugar mills haven’t yet received permission to offer ethanol for sale to the Oil Marketing Companies to satisfy the national 5% blending mandate, and tax rules make it uncompetitive to send the alcohol outside of the state for potable use. As a result, mills are drowning under 22.5 million liters of unsold ethanol.