Indian-Brazil Alliance for Bioenergy and Biofuels

Indo Brazil Alliance for Bioenergy and Biofuels

• Brazil and India have agreed to work towards the development of an Indian- Brazil Alliance for Bioenergy and Biofuels and will also be establishing a virtual India-Brazil Centre of Excellence on Ethanol.
• Both countries have agreed to make efforts to make sustainable biofuels and bioenergy an integral part of the energy transition, especially for industry, transport, and other sectors that are difficult to decarbonise like shipping and aviation.
• These decisions have been taken during Bento Albuquerque’s, Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy, visit from April 19th to 21st 2022 wherein he paid a visit to the Indian Minister of Petroleum and Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri.
  
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Under this, the aspects prioritised were

• technical aspects of E20 blends as vehicle use in current fleets
• technical aspects of higher ethanol blends use in flex-fuel vehicles
• flex-fuel technologies like two-stroke and four-stroke engines
• implementation of biodiesel
• biogas or bio-methane incentives and policies
• efficient power and heat generation in ethanol and sugar plants

Published date : 25 Apr 2022 06:51PM