India approves $253.9 million in gap funding for 2G ethanol

In India, the Economic Times of India newspaper reports that the country’s cabinet has approved $253.9 million in gap funding to help fund cellulosic ethanol plants over the next half dozen years including 12 commercial projects and 10 demonstration projects. The government has been pushing to get ethanol blending to 10% by 2022 but has been struggling, especially in getting cellulosic ethanol production online. Ethanol in the country has traditionally been produced from B-heavy molasses but recently feedstocks have been expanded to include C-heavy molasses, cane juice and waste feedstocks.