AM Green, a green energy firm promoted by the founders of Greenko Group, plans to scale up its bamboo-based ethanol production following the successful commissioning of its Rs 4,500 crore biorefinery in Golaghat, Assam.

The project, inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi, is India’s first commercial-scale bamboo-based second-generation (2G) biorefinery and has already dispatched fuel-grade ethanol for blending at Numaligarh Refinery. The company uses Organosolv technology, which is environmentally benign and yields a higher ethanol output per tonne of feedstock.

The Assam Bio Ethanol (ABEPL) plant, a JV with Numaligarh Refinery, can process 3,00,000 TPA of feedstock to produce 50,000 TPA ethanol, 20,000 TPA furfural, and 8,000 TPA acetic acid. AM Green now plans to licence the technology globally and set up new facilities in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and abroad. Future upgrades may include lignin valorisation to lower ethanol costs and produce high-value products such as resins, marine fuels, and bio-bitumen.