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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s target to have 20% ethanol blended in petrol by 2025 could affect its food security -Tanvi Deshpande

India’s target to have 20% ethanol blended in petrol by 2025 could affect its food security -Tanvi Deshpande

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published Published on May 10, 2022   modified Modified on May 12, 2022

-IndiaSpend.com/ Scroll.in

Achieving the target won’t drastically reduce emissions nor will India achieve energy security because of it.

For India to meet its target of 20% ethanol blended in petrol by the year 2025 (commonly known as the E20 target), it will have to bring in more land under cultivation of feedstock – agricultural products that can be converted into ethanol – land that can be better utilised for the generation of renewable energy and for furthering the electric vehicles adoption programme in the country, according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

Besides, the ethanol target will not reduce earth-warming emissions drastically, it may be detrimental to India’s food security, and will only help us inch towards energy security, experts say.

‘Misplaced priority’

Ethanol can be blended into petrol to reduce the quantity of petrol required to run a vehicle, thus reducing dependency on imported, costly and polluting petroleum. Today, India imports 85% of its oil requirements.

India’s net import of petroleum was 185 million tonnes in 2020-21 at a cost of $551 billion, according to a roadmap for ethanol blending released by Niti Aayog, the Centre’s policy think-tank, in June 2021. Most of the petroleum products are used in transportation and therefore, the E20 programme can save the country $4 billion (Rs 30,000 crore) annually.

Besides, ethanol is a less polluting fuel and offers equivalent efficiency at a lower cost than petrol. The availability of large arable land, rising production of foodgrains and sugarcane leading to surpluses, availability of technology to produce ethanol from plant-based sources, and the feasibility of making vehicles compliant to ethanol-blended petrol are some of the supporting arguments used in the roadmap for E20, which refers to the target as “not only a national imperative, but also an important strategic requirement”.

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IndiaSpend.com/ Scroll.in, 10 May, 2022, https://scroll.in/article/1023551/indias-target-to-have-20-ethanol-blended-in-petrol-by-2025-could-affect-its-food-security


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