India's ethanol decade, and the room building what's next.
Bharat Ethanol Forum exists because the question changed — from can India scale? to what does India build next?
From 1.5% to 20% in a decade.
India has run one of the fastest fuel transitions in the world. Ethanol blending in petrol rose from 1.5% in 2014 to 20% in 2025 — hitting the E20 target five years early — while production capacity grew from under 2 billion litres to nearly 20 billion. In May 2026, the country notified fuel standards for blends up to E30.
The question is no longer whether India can scale. It's what India builds next: E30 and flex-fuel vehicles, grain and 2G ethanol, compressed biogas, sustainable aviation fuel and integrated bio-refineries.
20%
ethanol blended in India's petrol by 2025 — five years ahead of the 2030 target, up from 1.5% in 2014.
Source: Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, 2025.
One table, the whole value chain.
Bharat Ethanol Forum is a two-day leadership forum built for exactly that question. It brings producers, oil marketing companies, automakers, technology providers, investors and policymakers to one table to shape the post-E20 roadmap. Running alongside it is the Ethanol & Biofuels Trade & Tech Expo 2026, a focused technology marketplace. Together they cover the full arc of India's ethanol economy — feedstock to fuel, fuel to chemicals, and India to global markets.
30+ years of putting industries in one room.
Tefla's builds international conferences, exhibitions and policy platforms across agriculture, energy, sustainability and global trade. The focus is simple: credible rooms, real outcomes — platforms aligned with where the industry and policy are actually headed.
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28–29 September 2026 · The Westin Mumbai Powai Lake.