Cepsa, a pioneering provider of sustainable aviation gas (SAF) within the Canary Islands.
Cepsa is now supplying sustainable aviation gas (SAF) within the Canary Islands. The power firm has made SAF completely out there on the North Tenerife and Gran Canaria airports, and within the coming weeks it will likely be increasing this availability to the archipelago’s different predominant airports. This kind of biofuel achieves a discount of plane emissions by as much as 90% all through its complete life cycle, in comparison with standard kerosene.
These Canary Islands airports have now been added to the 5 different main Spanish airports the place Cepsa is supplying this sustainable gas: Madrid, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Málaga, and Seville.
Álvaro Macarro, Cepsa’s Director of Sustainable Aviation:
we’re making progress in the direction of our purpose of decarbonizing the aviation sector, whereas additionally implementing our agency dedication to supplying the Canary Islands with power that produces low ranges of CO2 emissions.
“We’re proud to be doing our half to assist enhance the sustainability of this area’s aviation and tourism sectors.”
Cepsa is without doubt one of the main producers and suppliers of aviation fuels within the Spanish market. At its La Rábida Vitality Park close to town of Huelva, it produces this sustainable gas from used cooking oils, as a means of selling the round financial system.
As well as, to ensure the provision of SAF to its clients, in February Cepsa started the development of the biggest second-generation biofuels plant in southern Europe, along with Bio-Oils, based mostly on an funding of €1.2 billion. This facility, which can go into operation in 2026 in Palos de la Frontera close to Huelva, may have a versatile manufacturing capability of 500,000 metric tons of SAF and renewable diesel. With this undertaking, the corporate is making additional progress in the direction of its goal of changing into the highest producer of 2G biofuels in Spain and Portugal, with an annual manufacturing capability of two.5 million metric tons of biofuels, of which 800,000 metric tons might be from SAF, an quantity adequate to permit flight across the planet 2,000 occasions.
This new step that Cepsa has taken within the Canary Islands is supporting a number of of the Sustainable Growth Targets from the United Nations 2030 Agenda, together with SDG 7 (Inexpensive and clear power), SDG 8 (First rate work and financial development), SDG 12 (Accountable consumption and manufacturing), and SDG 13 (Local weather motion).
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Cepsa, a pioneering provider of sustainable aviation gas (SAF) within the Canary Islands. supply
