Eni, Ryanair strike deal for 100k mt Sustainable Aviation Gas provide in Italy.
Ryanair, Europe’s no.1 airline, and Enilive, an organization instantly managed by Eni which holds 100% of its share capital, introduced that they’ve signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the long-term provide of Enilive sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) at chosen Ryanair airports throughout Italy, additional advancing the airline’s Pathway to Web Zero by 2050 decarbonization technique.
This settlement with Enilive would allow Ryanair to entry to as much as 100,000 tons (33m gallons) of SAF between 2025 and 2030 (equiv. to twenty,000 flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Dublin).
SAF is a concrete answer to contribute to the decarbonization of aviation within the coming many years, but at the moment solely accounts for a small fraction of the present gasoline utilization worldwide. In its biorefineries in Italy, Enilive processes primarily waste feedstock, comparable to used cooking oil, animal fat and agro-food trade residues, to supply Eni Biojet, a SAF that comprises 100% biogenic part and is appropriate to be blended with standard jet gasoline by as much as 50%.
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Thomas Fowler, Ryanair’s Director of Sustainability, stated:
Growing the manufacturing of SAF is a key problem that the trade faces over the approaching years.
“Partnering with an trade chief like Eni will assist Ryanair obtain our bold objective of utilizing 12.5% SAF by 2030 and Web Zero emissions by 2050. Eni is a key provider in our largest market, Italy, and their success in producing SAF will play a big position as our Group grows to hold 300m passengers p.a. by 2034.
Stefano Ballista, CEO of Enilive, added:
We’re glad to launch an settlement with such a related participant as Ryanair proper after European Union’s ReFuelEU laws that goals to extend the adoption of SAFs by 2050.
“Enilive plans to spice up its biorefining capability to over 5 million tonnes/yr by 2030 and it’s centered in growing new initiatives to increase its biorefining capability: biofuels can play a related position in decarbonizing mobility, together with its hard-to-abate sectors comparable to aviation.”
“The crops and the applied sciences we have now developed during the last decade allow Enilive to supply the mandatory quantities of SAF to fulfill the wants of firms as Ryanair and the necessities of the EU laws.”
Ryanair and Enilive: a standard objective to gasoline a extra sustainable aviation, January 22, 2024
