Emirates joins UK low carbon funding initiative, The Solent Cluster – estimated sustainable aviation gas manufacturing capability of 200 kt per yr.
Emirates has turn into the primary worldwide airline to affix The Solent Cluster, a UK initiative centered on low carbon investments established to cut back CO2 emissions from business, transport and households within the South Coast of England.
The Solent Cluster is a cross-sector collaboration of worldwide organisations, together with producers and engineering firms, regional companies and industries, main logistics and infrastructure operators and tutorial establishments.
Emirates joins over 100 members as a part of the Cluster, alongside founding members the Solent Companions (beforehand the Solent LEP), international power supplier ExxonMobil and College of Southampton. The founding members have every shared particulars of their imaginative and prescient for the Solent and the way it might safe current jobs and produce low-carbon fuels for quite a lot of sectors, together with aviation.
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Sustainable aviation gas potential
The Solent Cluster has the potential to create a Sustainable Aviation Gas (SAF) plant with an estimated gas manufacturing capability of 200,000 tonnes (200 kt) per yr. If accepted, the plant might begin working in 2032.
Jet gas produced by the SAF plant might keep away from emissions of 563 kilotons of CO2 per yr by producing gas with 70% much less emissions than fossil kerosene. Current pipeline networks can provide the SAF from the plant to main airports served by Emirates reminiscent of Heathrow and Gatwick.
Emirates’ long-term aspiration to safe UK-produced SAF with The Solent Cluster is along with a number of SAF initiatives the airline has introduced during the last yr. It follows Emirates’ A380 and Boeing 777 demonstration flights utilizing 100% Sustainable Aviation Gas in 2023. Emirates has expanded its partnership with Neste for the availability of SAF in 2024 and 2025 for its operations in Amsterdam and Singapore. The airline additionally uplifted SAF for the primary time at its hub in Dubai for business flights in October 2023.
Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline mentioned:
Emirates is proud to affix like-minded organisations as a part of The Solent Cluster Initiative.
“The Cluster has robust potential to energy clear power innovation and manufacturing and is one other step ahead in our journey in direction of long-term SAF adoption inside our community. Alongside our fellow members, we stay up for contributing in direction of these efforts, whereas additionally seeing The Solent Cluster’s optimistic influence to the native financial system, Southeast area, and wider industries.”
Dr. Lindsay-Marie Armstrong, affiliate professor of mechanical engineering and tutorial cluster lead for the Solent Industrial Decarbonisation Cluster at College of Southampton, mentioned:
The Solent is recognised as one of many main contributors of CO2 emissions from energy-intensive manufacturing processes yearly.
“The formation of a decarbonisation cluster that spans the general public, personal and better schooling sectors is a monumental step ahead for the area. It’s going to introduce sustainable fuels for native transportation, the aviation and the delivery sectors; create low carbon power to warmth properties, companies and public buildings; and open up new extremely expert jobs alternatives.”
“This will solely be achieved by working collectively as a neighborhood, protecting all sectors and in the end working with the identical need to realize a low carbon financial future for the Solent area.”
Emirates joins UK low carbon funding initiative, The Solent Cluster, January 29, 2024
