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Jamaicans should be able to benefit from another type of fuel in the coming months.
The Ministry of Energy says it is moving to introduce a blend of motor-grade diesel fuel from locally grown plants such as castor beans.
According to Energy Minister Clive Mullings the significance of bio-fuels in alleviating the economic burden of imported oil must be the priority for the nation at this time.
To this end, the Ministry has launched a Bio-fuels Task Force, including the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Chris Tufton who will start working on the project.
Mr. Mullings told RJR News on Wednesday afternoon that the blend of biodiesel should come on stream in about a year.
"What we hope to achieve is that we intend to develop bio-fuel, ethanol is one such bio-fuel and bio-diesel is another which you can put into diesel fuels. We hope to have a blend of the bio-diesel and we hope to set a timeline of a year within which to have a percentage blend of bio-diesel in our diesel product,"
"In addition to that we are looking at the growing of castor bean. People may very well be aware of the product Castrol which comes from the castor bean which is lubricant,"
Mr. Mullings adds the development of the product should provide growth for the farming industry.
"Its important for us to realize that this task force is geared at looking at the optimum use of land, the yield from the particular plant that we are going to be looking at and we intend in very short order to be very high up in terms of production and productive capacity as Brazil is in terms of ethanol and their own biofuels/ biodiesels programmes," said Mr. Mullings.
And the Energy Minister has confirmed that the government's plans to have E-10 supplied to all petrol stations across the island will not be realised on April one.
He says there is no new date for the pending islandwide roll out.
"That was dependent on us having storage capacity in the western end of the island to facilitate the islandwide roll out. They have had their approvals and time is against us in realizing April first,"
"There are other possibilities that I do not wish to disclose now in achieving that timeline but we are adamant that we have to have a roll out islandwide of E10 so that motorists in other areas of the island now served by the western terminals can share in the benefits of E10," said Mr. Mullings.
The Government officially launched the environmentally friendly E-10 gasoline on October 23.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/16258/26/
The Ministry of Energy says it is moving to introduce a blend of motor-grade diesel fuel from locally grown plants such as castor beans.
According to Energy Minister Clive Mullings the significance of bio-fuels in alleviating the economic burden of imported oil must be the priority for the nation at this time.
To this end, the Ministry has launched a Bio-fuels Task Force, including the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Chris Tufton who will start working on the project.
Mr. Mullings told RJR News on Wednesday afternoon that the blend of biodiesel should come on stream in about a year.
"What we hope to achieve is that we intend to develop bio-fuel, ethanol is one such bio-fuel and bio-diesel is another which you can put into diesel fuels. We hope to have a blend of the bio-diesel and we hope to set a timeline of a year within which to have a percentage blend of bio-diesel in our diesel product,"
"In addition to that we are looking at the growing of castor bean. People may very well be aware of the product Castrol which comes from the castor bean which is lubricant,"
Mr. Mullings adds the development of the product should provide growth for the farming industry.
"Its important for us to realize that this task force is geared at looking at the optimum use of land, the yield from the particular plant that we are going to be looking at and we intend in very short order to be very high up in terms of production and productive capacity as Brazil is in terms of ethanol and their own biofuels/ biodiesels programmes," said Mr. Mullings.
And the Energy Minister has confirmed that the government's plans to have E-10 supplied to all petrol stations across the island will not be realised on April one.
He says there is no new date for the pending islandwide roll out.
"That was dependent on us having storage capacity in the western end of the island to facilitate the islandwide roll out. They have had their approvals and time is against us in realizing April first,"
"There are other possibilities that I do not wish to disclose now in achieving that timeline but we are adamant that we have to have a roll out islandwide of E10 so that motorists in other areas of the island now served by the western terminals can share in the benefits of E10," said Mr. Mullings.
The Government officially launched the environmentally friendly E-10 gasoline on October 23.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/16258/26/
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