Biodiesel in India, Indian Bio-diesel, Biofuels Trends - Reference & Resources

Biodiesel in India

 This section contains resources for Biodiesel status and trends in India. Do let us know (narsi at esource dot in) if you have a resource that fits in this section.

 Biodiesel Info from Ethanol India

 Biodiesel Blog – News from India (Apr 2005)

 India Inc. Eyes Jatropha Farming in a Big Way – The Hindu Business Line, Sep 2005

 Biodiesel Technologies, India – Web Site

 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - An Assessment of the Biofuels Industry in India* - Prepared by Joseph B. Gonsalves, Oct 2006. Read the PDF file here

 India Biofuels Market Poised To Boom - Jul 2006 - RenewableEnergyAccess reports that India’s renewable energy industry is estimated at half a billion dollars in size and experiencing 15% annual growth. About 540 million tons of plant biomass are produced every year and that biomass can be refined into fuel such as ethanol. The Indian government has recently mandated the use of 10% ethanol fuel which has created a local demand of 3.6 billion liters of fuel. Read more from this report @ Renewable Energy Access

 India Biofuels Corporation - India Biofuels Corporation is an international management team of business and financial expertise that has come together to build a world class commercial biofuels company in India in the coming decade. IBFC believes there is a real and necessary opportunity to develop a large-scale biofuels industry in India. With petrochemical energy supply continuing to increase in financial and political cost, a real alternative to India's energy and transport fuels needs is an urgent priority. Working in partnership with the Indian National Mission on Biofuels, and utilising the best in agribusiness, energy and corporate financial expertise, IBFC aims to bring more than one million hectares of unused, uneconomic rural wasteland under full-scale commercial biofuels production during the next ten years. IBFC web site here

 Biofuels - The Key to India's Sustainable Energy Needs - Paper presented at RISO International Energy Conference 2005 @ Denmark (PDF file)

 Biofuels Can Fuel India’s Carbon Trading Potential - September 20, 2004 - Financial Express - India can tap the $52-billion global market for carbon trading by encouraging production and use of biofuels and plantation of trees having oil-bearing seeds and materials, like Jatropha and Pongamia species. Other plantations having oil-bearing seeds or materials are Sal, Mahua, Kokum, Pilu, Phulwara, Dhupa, Neem, Mango, Kusum, Karanja, Ratanjyot, Jatropa, Tumba, Jojoba, Simarouba, says this news report. Read the full news article from here

 India closing biofuels plants, Brazil opening them - Jan 24th 2007 blog post @ Auto Blog Green - Falling oil prices are starting to claim some biofuel casualties in India, with biodiesel not being able to compete at the pump. With crude oil dropping to around $50 per barrel, diesel in India currently costs around Rs 36 per litre (US$3.10 per gallon) which makes biodiesel at Rs 41 per litre ex-factory plus taxes look very expensive. Read the full news report from here @ Auto Blog Green

 Bio-diesel as an Alternative Urban Transport Fuel in India: Demand for fuel from the urban transport sector has grown several folds in the last decade, and this rate of growth in transport fuel is further expected to grow and put additional pressure on the foreign exchequer.

 India Biodiesel Scene: Biofuel crops are usually grown either to make bio-diesel, a fuel for high-compression diesel engines that is refined from the vegetable fats in a crop, or ethanol, a fuel for engines with spark-plugs, which is distilled from a crop that is fermented.

 Biodiesel Brakthrough in India: The main general attraction of so-called biodiesel is that in principle it is carbon-neutral and therefore has no net impact on the climate—when the plants from which it's made are regrown, they consume the carbon dioxide emitted when the fuel is burned.

 Biodiesel in India:

 Technology Review: India's Big Plans for Biodiesel: Researchers are developing new methods for cultivating a plant called jatropha.

 India mulls bio-diesel for rural development:

 Bio-Diesel: The fuel for Future:

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