British Airways has signed a deal with LanzaJet, a US-based sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) company, investing in a new facility in the state of Georgia, from which the airline will purchase the biofuel starting in late 2022.
British Airways. Credit: BriYYZ / flickr
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The facility will convert sustainable ethanol into SAF, also called biojet, using LanzaJet's alcohol-to-jet (AtJ) process, which is able to use any form of sustainable ethanol as a source. Construction on the project is slated to start later in the year.
The deal also involves LanzaJet making early plans for a potential large-scale SAF biorefinery in the UK.
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"With the right support for waste-based fuels, the UK would be an ideal location for commercial-scale LanzaJet plants," said LanzaJet CEO Jimmy Samartzis.
"With the addition of British Airways, LanzaJet now plans to develop a further four larger-scale plants operating from 2025, producing a pipeline of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel made from sustainable feedstocks, to support and enable the global decarbonisation of the aviation sector," he added.
BA is currently constructing Europe's first waste-to-fuel plant in Immingham, UK, in collaboration with British sustainable fuel tech firm Velocys.
The airline's parent company, International Airlines Group, has said it will invest $400 million (€330 million) in SAF over the next 20 years.
LanzaJet was formed last year by Chicago-based renewable power company LanzaTech with support from Canada's Suncor.
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