Singapore Airways and Scoot Set Goal to make use of Sustainable Aviation Gas for five% of Complete Gas Necessities by 2030.
Singapore Airways (SIA) and Scoot, the 2 airways throughout the SIA Group portfolio of carriers, introduced their goal of changing 5% of their whole gas necessities with sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) by 2030.
Sustainable fuels are a key decarbonisation lever for the airline business, given their potential to scale back carbon emissions by as much as 80% on a life-cycle foundation in comparison with standard jet gas. This makes them important to the Group’s aim of attaining internet zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Mr Goh Choon Phong, Chief Government Officer, Singapore Airways, stated:
This is a vital milestone within the SIA Group’s sustainability journey.
“The higher use of sustainable fuels will probably be a key lever in our decarbonisation technique, which incorporates our continued funding in new technology plane and higher operational efficiencies. Collectively, this can put us on the trail in the direction of our internet zero goal.”
“Nevertheless, we can not do that alone. Deeper collaboration with companions and stakeholders, each in Singapore and all over the world, is required for all of us to satisfy our collective sustainability targets. We are going to proceed to search out alternatives to work collectively to assist the higher manufacturing and use of sustainable fuels within the airline business, in addition to different decarbonisation initiatives.”
Discussions with gas suppliers on alternatives to buy sustainable aviation fuels are ongoing, and additional particulars will probably be introduced on the applicable time.
Over the previous couple of years, the Group has been working carefully with companions, each in Singapore and all over the world, to raised perceive the operational and business issues that might assist the higher provide and adoption of SAF.
As a member of Singapore’s Worldwide Advisory Panel (IAP) to develop the sustainable air hub blueprint, SIA has been taking part in an lively half within the improvement of a decarbonisation roadmap for the nation’s aviation sector.
The Group helps the Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (IATA) and different stakeholders of their efforts to agree on the core rules of varied SAF accounting strategies. It will improve belief amongst stakeholders that the emission reductions from utilizing SAF may be reliably tracked, traced, and accounted for.
In 2017, in partnership with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), SIA operated 12 inexperienced package deal flights from San Francisco to Singapore that included the usage of SAF, fuel-efficient plane, and optimised flight operations.
In 2020, SIA entered a year-long partnership with Stockholm’s Swedavia Airport to deploy a mix of jet gas and SAF via the airport’s gas hydrant system on SIA flights between Stockholm and Moscow. This partnership improved the Group’s understanding of the logistics and procurement of renewable fuels.
In September 2023, SIA, CAAS, and GenZero1, concluded a 20-month SAF pilot. Beneath this, 1,000 tonnes of neat SAF had been imported, blended in Singapore, and uplifted through Changi Airport’s gas hydrant system on SIA and Scoot flights.
An equal 1,000 SAF credit had been generated via a trusted business commonplace, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) Ebook & Declare System2, representing roughly 2,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide reductions. The credit had been provided to corporates and freight forwarders as an avenue to scale back their carbon footprint whereas supporting the event of a nascent SAF business.
The pilot reaffirmed Singapore’s operational readiness for sustainable fuels, and affirmed that transactions in SAF credit may be performed in a trusted and clear method. SIA is sharing its learnings with business companions to boost consciousness and assist for SAF amongst corporates, construct the credibility of the Ebook & Declare system, and encourage efforts to scale up the adoption of SAF.
Additional particulars on the SIA Group’s sustainability initiatives may be present in Annexe A, and on SIA’s web site and Scoot’s web site.
1 From 1 July 2022, Temasek’s involvement within the pilot is managed by GenZero, an funding platform wholly owned by Temasek that’s devoted to accelerating decarbonisation globally.
2 RSB is a world membership organisation that drives the sustainable transition to a bio-based and round economic system.
The Ebook & Declare System allows the decoupling of sustainability attributes from licensed SAF. The decoupled sustainability attributes can be utilized to generate SAF credit, which may be transferred to a different account holder and retired in a sturdy and clear method.
Singapore Airways And Scoot Set Goal To Use Sustainable Aviation Gas For five% Of Complete Gas Necessities By 2030, November 14, 2023
