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Biogas found its ethanol moment this month. Can it now find scale?

Biogas found its ethanol moment this month. Can it now find scale?
Biogas found its ethanol moment this month. Can it now find scale?

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India’s ethanol programme took around two decades to assemble the ingredients to achieve blending scale. Biogas is trying to compress that learning curve. New rules promise producers a buyer, a fixed price until 2036, capital support, and pipeline access, while city gas distributors face rising blending mandates. Corporate money is starting to follow. The opportunity is large, but so are the constraints. The next five years will show whether policy can help the country produce biogas to scale.

You can call it a new fuel conservation programme, or maybe even a move to change the fuel economy. Whatever you call it, a change like that always sparks a heated debate. Consider what happened with ethanol blending. There may have been a discussion of sorts when it actually started in 2001. But when it went mainstream is when all sorts of lobbyists entered the picture to vehemently make their arguments and objections for and against the
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