In Texas, Vast Renewables Limited announced it has signed a development services agreement with GGS Energy to pursue a commercial-scale synthetic fuels project in the Southwest United States. Project Bravo, Vast’s first deployment in the U.S., will see Vast’s CSP v3.0 technology used to generate carbon free heat and electricity to power a co-located refinery that will produce green methanol and/or electrically powered sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF). The project is expected to be located in the Southwest United States. Project Bravo will build on Solar Methanol 1 (SM1), the CSP-powered green methanol reference plant to be located in Australia at the Port Augusta Green Energy Hub, that Vast is co-developing with global energy company Mabanaft. SM1 will be supplied with base load renewable heat from Vast’s co-located 30 MW / 288 MWh CSP plant, and it will have the capacity to produce 7,500 tons of green methanol each year. Craig Wood, CEO of Vast, said: “CSP has the potential to unlock low-cost green fuel production in the U.S., and it can play a significant role in helping decarbonize shipping and aviation.”
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