DOE seeks enter on constructing provide chains for SAF

The U.S. Division of Power has launched a request for info (RFI) to higher perceive the challenges going through important parts inside sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) provide chains. Particularly, this RFI (DE-FOA-0003157) seeks enter from trade, academia, analysis laboratories, authorities companies, and different stakeholders to establish alternatives to allow the speedy improvement of efficient provide chains able to assembly future SAF demand.

Whereas the business aviation sector is a vital contributor to the U.S. financial system, it’s additionally a major supply (roughly 2 %) of home greenhouse fuel emissions. The objective of the Sustainable Aviation Gasoline Grand Problem—launched in 2021 by DOE, the U.S. Division of Transportation, and the U.S. Division of Agriculture—is to spur the manufacturing of at the least 3 billion gallons of home SAF per yr by the yr 2030, and enough SAF to satisfy 100% of aviation gasoline demand by 2050.

The SAF Grand Problem Roadmap offers an overview of actions by U.S. authorities companies to help stakeholders in realizing the problem targets. This RFI seeks enter from related stakeholders on the roadmap’s SAF provide chains motion space, which encompasses:

•feedstock manufacturing, assortment, and distribution to SAF manufacturing amenities;

•conversion of feedstock to gasoline; and

•transport of completed gasoline to the infrastructure required to gasoline plane.

Responses to this RFI should be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Phrase doc (.docx) attachment to [email protected] no later than 5:00pm (ET) on Nov. 2, 2023.  For extra info on the RFI, view the complete solicitation on Grants.gov.   

This can be a Request for Data (RFI) solely and won’t result in a selected Funding Alternative Announcement (FOA). DOE’s Workplace of Power Effectivity and Renewable Power (EERE) is not going to pay for info supplied below this RFI and no undertaking can be supported on account of this RFI. This RFI isn’t accepting purposes for monetary help or monetary incentives.