sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

Aether Fuels is advancing plans for a Southeast Asia facility capable of producing 100,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) annually.

The airlines say European e-SAF mandates cannot be met and warn that other environmental legislation puts the sector’s competitiveness at risk.

Seeing shortcomings in their support to the aviation sector, EU officials and members of the European Parliament are considering a more comprehensive approach.

China Southern Airlines has participated in what is described as China’s first full-chain sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) uplift.

EU Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas has named competitiveness as the “overriding objective” of Europe’s new aviation strategy.

European airline CEOs meeting in Brussels say mandates imposing the use of synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) should be delayed.

European airlines plan to meet in Brussels to call for a delay to a European mandate for the uptake of synthetic aviation fuel, Transport & Environment said.

Southern Energy Renewables has selected St. Charles, Louisiana, as the location for a planned $1.4 billion sustainable aviation fuel production facility.

Stop-fold tiltrotor becomes X-76; Sikorsky tests hybrid powertrain; light-driven SAF production; and from nuclear power to liquid fuel.

Airlines in Brazil are unsure of how they will comply with the government’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandate that takes effect in 2027.

LATAM Airlines Brazil’s CEO believes Brazil could become one of the world’s most competitive producers of SAF.

Syzygy Plasmonics has signed an agreement to develop commercial-scale facilities in Brazil to produce SAF using biogas created from sugar crop waste.

Lufthansa Group has called on the EU to widen its electro-sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) mandate to include other transport modes.

Rolls-Royce has teamed up with UK project developer Equilibrion to explore whether small modular nuclear reactors could be used to power eSAF production.

International Airlines Group (IAG) has shared key risk assessments and clauses that it includes in long-term sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) contracts.

The story of the adoption of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) in business aviation has been circuitous.

Kenyan startup Bleriot Group is gearing up its SAF production operation this year with a view to manufacturing SAF in commercial quantities in 2027.

Honeywell’s methanol-to-jet tech powers e-SAF production for Verso Energy’s plants in Europe and the U.S., advancing sustainable aviation fuel innovation.

Three sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) registries have partnered on a pilot project to minimize the risk of double-counting.

Even if eSAF developers manage to secure long-term airline offtake agreements, they are not likely to be recognized as bankable by financiers, experts say.

Singaporean eVTOL demonstrator; missile-launching uncrewed X-plane; BWB goes double-deck; and cheaper SAF by co-electrolysis.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

SAF producer LanzaJet has secured $47 million in the first close of an equity investment round targeted at raising a total of $135 million.

Sustainable aviation fuel producer Neste and distributor World Fuel Services are aiming to make Neste SAF available at more than 100 airports across Europe over the next five years.

Airlines across Europe are struggling to get hold of essential paperwork that fuel suppliers must provide under ReFuelEU, despite a passed Feb. 14 deadline.