Sustainable Aviation Gasoline – Norwegian introduces fossil-free aviation gas equal to 100 flights on Denmark’s busiest route between Aalborg and Copenhagen.
Norwegian is to buy fossil-free aviation gas to energy the equal of 100 flights between Aalborg and Copenhagen. The initiative proves that decreasing the local weather footprint of Danish aviation is already doable right this moment.
The Danish authorities introduced its aim to have one “inexperienced home route” in Denmark by 2025. Norwegian, along with Aalborg Airport, are proving that working flights with fossil-free aviation gas, also called SAF, on a big scale is already doable right this moment.
Plane right this moment are restricted to a 50 p.c mix of fossil-free gas and traditional aviation gas. On account of this limitation Norwegian has chosen to buy the quantity of gas wanted for the 100 flights with fossil-free gas and to have it delivered to Aalborg Airport’s services.
This enables Norwegian to introduce fossil-free aviation gas on Denmark’s busiest home route between Aalborg and Copenhagen. The initiative is one other step in direction of the airline’s ambition to cut back emissions by 45 per cent earlier than 2030. Earlier this 12 months Norwegian introduced that the airline had partnered with Norsk e-Gasoline to construct the world’s first full-scale electro-fuel plant.
Geir Karlsen, CEO of Norwegian, took half within the opening occasion at Aalborg Airport right this moment.
Geir Karlsen, CEO of Norwegian mentioned:
There has lengthy been a deal with how home aviation in Denmark could make use of extra sustainable aviation gas, each within the brief and long run.
“Our initiative to fly the equal of 100 fossil-free flights inside Denmark is a robust demonstration that that is doable inside the current infrastructure right this moment. Nevertheless, to be able to make fossil-free flights frequent observe by 2025, the supply of fossil-free aviation gas wants to extend drastically from the restricted quantities of gas obtainable right this moment,” says Karlsen.
Aalborg Airport will obtain its inaugural supply of fossil-free gas from DCC & Shell Aviation Denmark*. The consumption on the 100 flights equals a complete of round 140 metric tons. Using fossil-free gas over the following two weeks corresponds to a reductions of Norwegian’s CO2 emission by as much as 80 p.c on the route between Aalborg and Copenhagen.
Over the course of a 12 months, Norwegian operates roughly 2,200 flights between Aalborg and Copenhagen, consuming round 3,000 metric tons of aviation gas. If the equal quantity of fossil-free aviation gas have been to be launched on all flights over a 12 months, carbon emissions can be diminished by near 10,000 metric tons (from a life-cycle perspective).
Aalborg Airport will obtain a direct provide of fossil-free gas for the very first time because of the introduction of fossil-free aviation gas on home flights between Aalborg and Copenhagen.
Niels Hemmingsen, Managing Director at Aalborg Airport.
Aalborg Airport is happy that Norwegian has chosen us as a associate for this initiative. Sustainable aviation gas is the way forward for all aviation.
“As an airport, we help with the infrastructure on this undertaking and count on that it could actually contribute to Denmark’s first inexperienced home route additionally being arrange from Aalborg Airport in 2025.”
Fossil-free aviation gas – that is the way it works
Fossil-free aviation fuels are additionally referred to as Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). These fuels are a extra sustainable different to fossil-based jet gas. SAF is at the moment produced from bio waste and residual merchandise, corresponding to used cooking oil and animal fats.
Sooner or later, PtX-based SAF (Energy-to-X) is predicted to have the ability to produce considerably bigger portions, and much more sustainably, by changing electrical energy from photo voltaic and wind energy into liquid types of vitality.
DCC & Shell Aviation Denmark are delivering roughly 140 metric tons of fossil-free gas which is then blended with typical jet gas in accordance with present SAF mixing guidelines. This supply of fossil-free jet gas is saved inside Aalborg airport’s central gas infrastructure and shall be utilized by all plane utilizing the airport’s gas providers.
By buying SAF wanted for 100 flights between Aalborg and Copenhagen, the consumption of fossil gas and thus carbon emissions are diminished. That is probably the most environment friendly strategy to fulfill the Danish authorities’s want for a sustainable home aviation route.
Norwegian introduces fossil-free aviation gas equal to 100 flights on Denmark’s busiest route between Aalborg and Copenhagen, October 26, 2023
