Latest Developments Come as the Minnesota SAF Hub Celebrates One Year of Progress
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GREATER MSP Partnership, in collaboration with Bank of America, Delta Air Lines, Ecolab, Xcel Energy and other leading stakeholders today announced major developments and celebrated a year of accomplishments toward operating the first large-scale, end-to-end sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) value chain in the United States.
SAF is a safe and certified alternative jet fuel that can reduce lifecycle carbon emissions of jet fuel by more than 80%1. Neat SAF is produced using renewable feedstocks including agricultural biomass, woody biomass, hydrogen, continuous living cover crops, and used cooking oil and is a drop-in replacement for regular jet fuel, known as Jet A. Current certification standards, allow up to 50% neat SAF to be blended with Jet A. However, as a nascent industry, there is not enough SAF being produced today to fuel the world’s airlines for a single week.
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