Sustainability and Environment
U.S. Up To Meet Sustainable Aviation Fuel Challenge
Three years in, the U.S. is on track to meet SAF production goal
Panel discussion at SAF conference
Laurence Wildgoose (l), the FAA's assistant administrator for policy, international affairs, and the environment moderated a panel this morning at the North American SAF Conference & Expo in St. Paul Minnesota. Panelists included Annie Petsonk, the DOT's assistant secretary of transportation; William Hohenstein, director of the USDA's Office of Energy and Environmental Policy; and Alejandro Moreno, associate principal deputy assistant secretary for the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. © Curt Epstein/AIN

Three years after the Biden Administration issued its SAF Grand Challenge to the U.S. fuel industry to reach a goal of three billion gallons of neat sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production a year by 2030, the industry is stepping up.

“When we initially set it, there was a lot of discussions about whether that was too ambitious," Alejandro Moreno, an official with the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency, said this morning at the North American SAF Conference and Expo in St. Paul, Minnesota. “We are now on track at the low end to meet it and even exceed it.”

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