Mexican state to open its first ethanol biofuel station

The Veracruz government will open its first ethanol producing biofuel station.

The fuel station is expected to provide biofuel for public transportation, according to Ossiel Castro de la Rosa, the director of the Bioenergy Institute of Veracruz.

Several donors will present the organisation with a combined total of 240 million pesos (€13 million) in funding.

'We have gone through all the administrative work and have now got permission from the Energy Secretariat on the part of the federal government. We are building another sales point to which we will reveal the location in the future. We will also finish the state and municipal administrative work,' de la Rosa says.

The group hopes to implement the programme in other municipalities including Jalapa, Tierra Blanca, Tres Valles, Cosamaloapan and Alvarado.

De la Rosa adds: 'Now is the right time to move forward with biofuels. The cost of petrol continues to rise while the cost of ethanol stays at least 50 centavos (3 cents) below the cost of petrol.'