A pair biofuel companies and United Airlines have announced a joint venture to develop and commercialize Sustainable Aviation Fuel that uses ethanol as a feed stock.
Speaking to Brownfield before the announcement, Chief Financial Officer Jim Stark with Nebraska-based Green Plains says partnerships like this will help ramp up production. “We believe that ethanol has the best pathway to get to sustainable aviation fuel through alcohol-to-ject or ethanol-to-ject technologies, but in order for that to happen for us we need to have a much lower CI score than what we have today.”
The airline, Green Plains and Tallgrass, an energy and carbon pipeline company, will invest $50 million in SAF technology called Blue Blade.
