ESTIMATED BIODIESEL REQUIREMENT( In MILLION MT)
IN INDIA.
TOTAL REQUIREMENT BY 2012 = 70 MMT of Mineral Diesel+BIODIESEL. FOSSIL FUEL SCENERIO IN INDIA: India is the fourth largest consumer of fossil fuel in Asia Pacific. Current crude oil consumption - 130 MMT. Estimated crude oil demand by 2010 - 204 MMT. Current Crude oil Import - 90.43 MMT. Estimated Crude oil Import by 2010 - 110 MMT. Setting up a Biodiesel Processing plant has become a reality in India and many entrepreneurs are setting up the plant in different parts of the country,keeping with the national biodiesel mission announced by the Government of India in the Planning commission Report on Biofuels published in 2003 (Please see ANNEXURE I for a gist of the report). INDIA has tremendous potential for the Biodiesel Industry as
elsewhere in the world. USA/UK/Germany/France/Brazil are the forerunners
in this field and had taken up their biodiesel mission from 1999
onwards.In INDIA,we produce only 22% of our mineral fuel requirement
and the rest is imported at a huge cost.With the skyrocketing
oil prices all over the globe and to ward off GLOBAL WARMING thretning
our very existence, and to restore ECOLOGICAL BALANCE Indian mission
on biofuels is the order of the day.We have vast expanse of waste
and marginal land,tropical climate,vast manpower - ideal conditions
for growing JATROPHA CURCUS,the most suitable Non-edible oil seed
for biodiesel production.Cultivation of JATROPHA CURCUS is going
on in full swing in almost all the Indian states with a strong
determination of making INDIA self sufficient in FUEL OILS in
the coming years. |
