A speaker at the IATA General Meeting has been deeply critical of e-SAF policy in the EU and UK.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 2030 e-SAF targets by the UK and the EU are beyond unrealistic \u2013 they are utterly detached from reality,\u201d said Marie Owens Thomsen, IATA\u2019s Senior Vice President Sustainability and Chief Economist.<\/p>\n
The EU and the UK have mandated e-SAF production of around 0.6 million tonnes by 2030. However, global production capacity currently operating and under construction stands at around 0.02 million tonnes with only one single production site in operation. It would take approximately 20 commercial-scale refineries to achieve the mandated volume. Moreover, no new final investment decisions for e-SAF facilities have been made over the past year.<\/p>\n
READ:\u00a0IATA AGM: \u2018Another disappointing year\u2019 for SAF production<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt is a reckless energy market creation strategy to impose mandates before production is enabled. Such a strategy will only drive up the price,\u201d Thomsen told delegates.<\/p>\n \u201cCoupled with penalties, it diverts scarce resources from being allocated to actual CO2 emissions reductions. The strategy is also bewildering given that Europe has the highest renewable energy prices in the world. A serious strategy would first scale renewable energy production to drive its price down and build the e-SAF production capacity on sound economics. Only at that point can mandates achieve the desired results,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n Along with SAF (from biofuel sources), e-SAF (electro-SAF) will also play a growing role in air transport\u2019s decarbonisation. The conversion of renewable electricity using a power-to-liquid (PtL) process can produce e-SAF. E-SAF does not require biomass or waste oils, but does require large amounts of electricity, hydrogen, water, and CO2.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post IATA AGM: EU e-SAF targets \u2018Utterly detached from reality\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Aviation Business News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A speaker at the IATA General Meeting has been deeply critical of e-SAF policy in the EU and UK. \u201cThe 2030 e-SAF targets by the UK and the EU are beyond unrealistic \u2013 they are utterly detached from reality,\u201d said Marie Owens Thomsen, IATA\u2019s Senior Vice President Sustainability and Chief Economist. The EU and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}