In Illinois, LanzaJet announced a strategic investment from Airbus, which will enable the company to continue to build its capability and capacity to scale its proprietary ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel process technology. “LanzaJet intentionally developed a diverse portfolio of strategic investors comprised of leading, global companies to ensure we have the ecosystem to scale […]
In Illinois, LanzaJet announced an investment from MUFG, one of the world’s leading financial groups with total assets of approximately $2.9 trillion. The investment enables LanzaJet to continue building its capability and capacity to deploy its proprietary ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) process technology. MUFG’s investment is part of LanzaJet’s current $100 million growth […]
In Washington, amid the ongoing negotiations surrounding the Farm Bill, industry stakeholders representing nearly the entire supply chain for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) – including seven major airlines – called on Agriculture Committee leaders in the House and Senate to boost the role of American farms in fueling low-carbon aviation. “SAF, which can be produced from renewable […]
In Georgia, the glitterati of the bioeconomy world — including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, U.S Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk, Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols, Treutlen County Commissioner Phil Jennings, and Soperton Mayor John Koon.and many government officials, industry leaders, partners, and supporters — gathered in the wilds of southwest Georgia […]
The aviation sector, as a consumer-facing industry, has long been a high-profile contributor to global carbon emissions. It accounts for around 1 billion tonnes of CO2 per annum or over 2 percent of the world’s entire CO2 emissions. And with the demand for aviation fuel expected to more than double by 2050 compared to pre-COVID […]
In Massachusetts, 4AIR, which helps companies offset their emissions and use SAF announced that it signed its 100th client. Since 4AIR’s launch in January 2021, the company has attracted clients including commercial airlines such as Southwest Airlines, fixed-based operators (FBOs) like Clay Lacy Aviation and Fontainebleau Aviation, business jet operators such as Verijet and Tradewind […]
Early ballots are in, Praj, LanzaTech leading in “Best Places to Work in the Bioeconomy” voting In Florida, The Digest has released the results in the “Best Places to Work in the Bioeconomy 2020” voting through March 2nd, as we reach the last 2 weeks of voting. “It’s still quite early and there will be […]
Rising stars are coming together as constellations, the stars are aligning and making magical things happen – today we explore 9 of those constellations building around Sustainable Aviation Fuels. Some of them are young protostars in the earliest stage of stellar evolution, while others are like the Earth’s sun, a main-sequence mid-size star, and a […]
In a tale of two Washingtons, the sustainable aviation fuels movement will gather in Washington state in March and in Washington, D.C. in April to seek breakthroughs in the adoption rate of jet biofuels, which have been stalled for some time between the successful certification/demonstration efforts of the last decade and the widespread deployment which […]
In California, World Energy announced a $350 million investment over the next two years to complete the conversion of its Paramount, California facility into one of the cleanest fuel refineries in the world. The project will enable World Energy Paramount to process 306 million gallons annually. The conversion to renewable jet, diesel, gasoline and propane […]
