Singapore Airways Group (SIA) has agreed to purchase 1,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation gas (SAF) from Neste, a Finnish producer that arrange the world’s largest SAF manufacturing facility in Singapore final yr.
SIA and its price range provider Scoot would be the first two airways to immediately use the neat SAF, which is derived from biomass uncooked supplies, produced at Neste’s refinery at Changi Airport. The expanded refinery, which was accomplished in Might 2023, has the capability to supply one million tonnes of SAF a yr.
“Neste will mix the SAF with standard jet gas in keeping with the required security specs, and ship the blended jet gas to Changi Airport’s gas hydrant system in two batches – as soon as within the second quarter of 2024 and as soon as within the fourth quarter of this yr,” SIA stated in a assertion on Monday.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) introduced in February that the city-state was concentrating on for all flights departing Singapore to make use of 1 per cent of SAF starting 2026 and later 3 to five per cent by 2030, topic to optimistic market circumstances. Whereas the transfer was welcomed by the business, it additionally raised considerations concerning the restricted provide of uncooked supplies.
Neste’s SAF is comprised of “100 per cent renewable uncooked supplies together with used cooking oil and animal fats waste. The corporate stated that it reduces greenhouse home gasoline emissions by 80 per cent in comparison with fossil jet gas.
Starting this month, SIA will provide 1,000 SAF credit, also called E-book & Declare Items (BCU), for buy by its company travellers, shippers and freight forwarders.
“Buying SAF BCUs permits company travellers, shippers, and freight forwarders to say the related environmental advantages for flights associated to their enterprise journey and operations…supporting the event of the nascent SAF business,” SIA stated.
In September 2023, SIA, CAAS and GenZero, a Temasek-owned funding platform, concluded a 20-month pilot wherein the aviation group imported 1,000 tonnes of neat SAF that have been uplifted on SIA and Scoot flights. An equal of 1,000 SAF credit have been generated via an business commonplace, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) E-book & Declare System, representing roughly 2,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide reductions, SIA stated.
