U.S. sustainable fuel technology company LanzaJet announced earlier this week that it has reached a “major construction milestone” at its Freedom Pines Fuels alcohol-to-jet production facility in Soperton, Georgia. The announcement is representative of a wider trend that the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is gaining traction, both in terms of production capacity and production pathways. The LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels plant—which lays claim to being the world’s first ethanol-based SAF production facility—is expected to have the capacity to produce 10 million gallons (38 million liters) of SAF and renewable diesel a year, starting in 2023.
Data collected by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) shows that, as of November 2022, some 115 renewable fuel projects have been publicly announced, covering 30 countries and over 70 individual producers. Their combined refining capacity—comprising renewable biodiesel, biogas, as well as SAF—is set to grow by over 400 percent by 2025 compared to 2022 and reach around 80 million tonnes, or 100 billion liters, of renewable fuel by 2030.
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