GREET news for ATJ: Industry welcomes US tax credit guidance for SAF opinion Fayaz Hussain 21 Dec 23 0 Having kept the industry waiting for 18 months, the Biden Administration suddenly announced its blueprint on tax credits for US-based ethanol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)… Read more
AtJ SAF’s future hangs in balance as US decides IRA tax credits for ethanol opinion Fayaz Hussain 15 Dec 23 0 After 18 months of dilly-dallying, the Biden Administration is expected to finally announce its guidance on whether aviation fuel produced from corn ethanol qualifies for… Read more
Velocys and Yield10 need financing fast opinion Fayaz Hussain 24 Nov 23 0 Everyone agrees that demand for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is strong. But two companies involved in the SAF production chain have said they will run… Read more
SAF’s Invisible Hand opinion Oscar Henderson 17 Nov 23 0 SAF’s Invisible Hand The ‘invisible hand’ concept first appeared in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and became a defining concept of free market economics. Simply put,… Read more
Down but not out, Velocys eyes fresh funds as CLN falls through opinion Fayaz Hussain 2 Nov 23 0 It has been a bad week for Velocys – the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technology company. On Tuesday, it announced that it had failed to… Read more
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once opinion Oscar Henderson 27 Oct 23 0 The global Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) industry currently does not have adequate supply to meet demand. It needs Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. The 2022 sci-fi… Read more
SAF Investor: Pathways, regulations towards SAF adoption opinion Fayaz Hussain 16 Oct 23 0 The recent EURefuel Initiative was discussed at length during the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) day at the Argus Biofuels Europe Conference in London last week.… Read more
Studying sogo shosha opinion Alasdair Whyte 28 Sep 23 0 Nike’s Worldwide Headquarters in Portland Oregon is not just a place to work. It also tells the history of the company. There are buildings named… Read more
DG Fuels – the first $30m is the hardest opinion Alasdair Whyte 12 Aug 23 0 Christopher Chaput ended up in Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) almost by accident. A veteran banker, he started advising his friend Michael Darcy, the CEO and founder… Read more
How SAF prizes can speed up innovation opinion Alasdair Whyte 12 Jun 23 0 In May 1919, Raymond Orteig, a French American hotelier in New York, wrote a letter to the Aero Club of America offering $25,000 to the… Read more
Chicken-feed(stock) opinion Alasdair Whyte 16 May 23 0 They eat a lot of chicken in Mississippi. Mississippi State University says the poultry market is worth $3.8bn – making it the state’s most important… Read more
Alder Fuels: introducing pioneer and full-time skid operations opinion CJI Team 9 May 23 0 This week, Alder Fuels reached a key milestone in the scale-up of Alder Renewable Crude (ARC) production by commissioning a pilot skid at the National… Read more
Getting ReFuelEU ready to fry opinion Alasdair Whyte 3 May 23 0 Laws are like sausages. It is best not to see them being made,” is a quote often attributed to Otto von Bismarck. But it is worth looking… Read more
How SAF feedstocks and production technologies can play a role in decarbonising aviation opinion CJI Team 3 May 23 0 Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), hydrogen and electric propulsion all have a role to play in decarbonising aviation, writes Andreea Moyes, director, Global Aviation Sustainability, Air… Read more
LanzaJet’s Samartzis: “I don’t think demand is ever going to be an issue” opinion CJI Team 25 Apr 23 0 Jimmy Samartzis the CEO of LanzaJet is in a hurry. Last week LanzaJet completed the final modules of its 10-plus storey alcohol-to-jet Freedom Pines Sustainable… Read more