SAF industry needs to upscale 1,600 times to meet net zero targets, UK SAF maker says

In the UK, ARGS reported that the sustainable aviation fuel industry would have to increase by 1,600 times its current size to meet the aviation sector’s 2050 net zero carbon emissions target, according to James Hygatem founder and CEO of UK-based SAF producer Firefly. Hygate called for greater funding for the UK SAF industry by encouraging investment into ‘first-of-a-kind’ facilities, which he hopes will be the pilot for commercial sustainable fuel production. “We won’t see any real [growth in the SAF industry] until the end of this decade because these are big projects that need to be put in place and there’s things that need to be developed, and fuels that need to be qualified,” he said. “But come 2030 onwards, we will start to see an increase in SAF production. In the UK, for example, we’ve got a target of 10% for all aviation fuel to be SAF by 2030.

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