Sustainability and Environment
Report: Australia Has Enough SAF Feedstock for 2030 Needs
Country is just developing production capacity
SAF Flasks in lab
Flasks of sustainable aviation fuel © Curt Epstein/AIN

Australian agribusiness conglomerate GrainCorp said its home country has enough feedstock to meet its 2030 estimated sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) needs as its SAF industry transitions from feasibility studies to early commercial deployment.

In a white paper, “From Paddock to Plane,” the company noted that Australia’s current volumes of potential feedstocks such as used cooking oil, tallow, canola, sugarcane, wheat starch, crop residues, forestry residues, and municipal solid waste could yield nearly three billion gallons of neat SAF a year. With future feedstock developments, including energy crops and perennials, the country’s total feedstock potential could be used to produce about 4.5 billion gallons of SAF annually.