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Brazil’s GOL to join Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group
In Brazil, the low cost Brazilian airline GOL has joined the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG), and will become a part of the group’s drive to reduce fuel costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions — including in-depth examination of jatropha and algae jet fuel in terms of lifecycle green house gas emissions and the [...]
Airlines face $1.53 billion carbon shortfall in 2012 without emissions reductions, biofuels: new report
In the UK, a report from RDC Aviation and Point Carbon has concluded that the aviation industry will face an initial carbon liability of $1.53 billion in 2012 when aviation enters the EU’s Emission Trading Scheme in 2012.
The groups found a shortfall of 77 million tonnes of CO2, and applied today’s spot price of $20 [...]
Jet Plains, Part II: Doers, Done, and the DOE in renewable jet fuel
Elsewhere in today’s Digest, comments from Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson and the DOE’s Valerie Reed confirm an increasingly laser-like focus on renewable aviation fuels from the advanced biofuels community. Here are some developments in renewable, drop-in aviation fuels from biomass also highly worth noting.
US Air Force
The Air Force has announced that it will construct a [...]
Jet Plains: Do grasses, woods, mustards grown in the heartlands hold the key for aviation fuels?
Ceres, ViaSpace, Sustainable Oils, Solazyme are among R&D leaders aiming to turn America’s heartland into a high-tech advanced biofuels playground of energy grasses and camelina for advanced transportation biofuels and aviation fuel.
“I fully expect that in the future,” said Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson, “that I will make my daily 15-mile commute in a car that [...]
Today in Biofuels OPinion: “Biofuel [for flight] would be certified by the end of next year.”
From the International Air Transport Association: “Paul Steele, who heads IATA’s environmental initiatives, told reporters in New Delhi biofuel would be certified “by the end of next year“. Certification is widely regarded as a first technical step that could eliminate some of the investment uncertainties clouding the use of high quality biofuels in aviation. IATA [...]
Boeing, UOP, Mexican airports launch aviation biofuels inititative for Mexico
In Colombia, Boeing, Mexico’s Airports and Auxiliary Services agency and Honeywell’s UOP announced a partnership at the annual ALTA aviation conference to develop sustainable aviation biofuels sources in Mexico. Darrin Morgan, director of biofuel strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said that the partners would assess “sustainable biomass systems such as halophytes, algae, jatropha, castor.”
The announcement [...]
IATA sets 6 percent biofuels airline target for 2020; says governments must help with investment
In Canada, the CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Giovanni Bisignani, said that the industry has set a 6 percent biofuels target for 2020, and would improve emissions by 1/5 percent per year between now and 2020.
The International Civil Aviation organisation (ICAO) High Level Meeting on International Aviation and Climate Change, which concluded [...]
Sustainable Oils, Solazyme, Cargill to supply 600,000 gallons of jet biofuel to US military
In Washington, the US Air Force has ordered a total of 400,000 gallons of renewable biofuels from Sustainable Oils, Cargill and Solazyme for testing as a military aviation fuel. the companies, in turn, will use UOP’s processing technology to convert oil from camelina, algae and animal fats into renewable jet fuel.
According to UOP, the military [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “”We’re willing to step up and be the [biofuels] buyers.”
Glenn Tilton, CEO of United Airlines: “We’re willing to step up and be the [biofuels] buyers. Volatile increases in fuel costs devastate the industry’s bottom line. We are actively supporting and seeking funding for this work. We are working with relevant government agencies and also with agricultural interests, universities, independent researchers and the military. With [...]
UN Leadership Forum, IATA CEO says Obama Administration must support sustainable biofuels; Praj chairman supports climate change mitigation
In Washington, IATA CEO, Giovanni Bisignani said that the Obama Administration needs to support sustainable biofuels with the right fiscal and legal framework.
Bisignani added in remarks at the International Aviation Club that “I have just come from meeting Carol Browner, the President’s top assistant on climate change issues. I emphasized that aviation cannot be treated [...]
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