The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of SAF

This 2021 report from The Digest and its ABLC CONNECTseries  assesses the state of renewable diesel, highlighting both positive (“tailwinds”) and negative (“headwinds”) factors affecting its growth. Tailwinds include increasing global planned capacity, supportive government initiatives (like RED II and RFS), a potentially strong value stack due to carbon pricing, and readily available and affordable feedstock. Headwinds, however, involve slower-than-expected adoption, limited market mandates, forecasting uncertainty, high costs, and a dependence on ethanol for expansion. The report uses data, including Spanish aviation fuel market analysis, to illustrate these factors and their financial implications.