In Pakistan, the News International reports that Punjab is considering applying a 2.5-cent per liter excise duty on ethanol as a way to boost government coffers without heavily imposing on consumers. The duty could bring in $101.2 million per year to the state’s budget. In the past, a smaller excise duty was lobbed on ethanol […]
In India, the Tribune newspaper reports that following its exposé on the proposed $84 million HPCL ethanol plant in Punjab that has been stalled for three years, the national food processing industries minister has called upon the petroleum and natural gas minister to push the Punjab government to expedite approval of the land HPCL requires […]
In India, Punjab is looking to revitalize mothballed cooperative sugarcane mills and take advantage of the stranded assets for upgrading into biorefineries. Growing demand for ethanol and power are seen as key drivers to bring these mills back online though more sugar isn’t needed due to the global surplus that is driven by out of […]
In India, the Punjab government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with local company SAB Industries to develop a $104.7 million paddy straw-based second-generation ethanol plant. The facility will produce 25,000 metric tons of ethanol annually. The state government estimates there is as much as 160 million metric tons of straw available in the country […]
In India, Punjab’s Minister of Power and Renewable Energy says he is working to promote the use of rice straw for bio-CNG and ethanol production in the state in an attempt to significantly reduce or eliminate burning of the 20 million tons of straw produced every year. About a quarter of it is used, but the […]
In India, the Punjab government has signed an MOU with the central government to develop a $7.35 million second-generation ethanol plant that will use crop waste as feedstock. With more than 5 million metric tons of straw available per year in the state, the project is expected to be the first of 10 such ethanol […]
