Brazil's ethanol fuel production will reach 64 billion litres in the year 2019, more than twice the amount currently produced, the Mines and Energy Minister Marcio Zimmerman said on September 20.

Bio-fuel derived from biomass will be the foundation of power generation in Sri Lanka in the future, Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said.

He was participating in an inspection tour of the Tokyo Cement Factory in Trincomalee recently.

The Minister asserted that the power demand in the North and East will be supplied 100 percent within two years.

NEW DELHI: India and Brazil are exploring the possibility of cooperation in production of ethanol and agricultural investment.

Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 7, 2010, 1:23 IST

First such tie-up between a sugar and a petroleum company.

Shree Renuka Sugars is looking to set up an integrated sugar-cum-ethanol plant with oil marketing company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) in Maharashtra.

Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 3, 2010, 1:15 IST

Offers 1,000 million litres ethanol to OMCs.

The sugar industry has offered to supply around 1,000 million litres ethanol to oil marketing companies for blending it with petrol.

Meghnad Desai

During the passage of the Nuclear Liability Bill, the Prime Minister pointed out that India had to retain the option of using nuclear power as a source of energy. Put it this way, the use of civilian nuclear energy is a

Left over food and vegetable waste discarded in the garbage could soon be used to generate bio cooking gas (alternative to LPG) in the Capital.