Southwest Airways Co. on Nov. 2 introduced an offtake settlement with USA BioEnergy LLC for as much as 680 million gallons of neat sustainable aviation gas (SAF). Over the time period of the 20-year settlement, as soon as blended with typical jet gas, the SAF might produce the equal of two.59 billion gallons of net-zero gas and keep away from 30 million metric tons of CO2. Southwest plans to start buying SAF from USA BioEnergy’s facility close to Bon Wier, Texas, as early as 2028. Moreover, as a part of the offtake settlement, Southwest and USA BioEnergy have established a long-term strategic relationship providing Southwest the chance to buy as much as one other projected 180 million gallons of SAF per yr from future deliberate manufacturing amenities.
“This offtake settlement with USA BioEnergy marks vital progress within the growth of our SAF portfolio and furthers our purpose to switch 10 p.c of our whole jet gas consumption with SAF by 2030,” stated Michael AuBuchon, managing director gas technique and administration at Southwest Airways. “We sit up for the chance to develop our strategic relationship with USA BioEnergy and probably buy extra SAF from them sooner or later.”
“Our settlement with Southwest Airways is an ideal match as a result of it aligns Southwest’s purpose of reaching web zero carbon emissions by 2050 and USA BioEnergy’s purpose of turning into the main producer of carbon-negative gas,” stated David Promenade, chairman of the board, co-founder of USA BioEnergy. “USA BioEnergy is worked up to work with Southwest on this preliminary challenge and, probably, future websites we could add in our pipeline.”
Southwest acknowledges the essential position that commercially viable SAF will play within the service’s technique to attain its near-term and long-term carbon objectives and is taking motion to forge relationships throughout the aviation worth chain to proactively deal with the challenges on the trail to its purpose of web zero carbon emissions by 2050. For extra on the service’s SAF technique, go to southwest.com/SAF.
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