Jet Zero Council CEO calls for SAF mandate

The CEO of the UK’s Jet Zero Council has urged the federal government to additional “again” using sustainable aviation gas (SAF) by introducing a mandate requiring airways to make use of not less than 10 per of the gas for flights by 2030.

Emma Gilthorpe, who heads up the council, stated that setting a mandate for the minimal use of SAF by airways could be “extremely useful” in driving extra use of the gas and decreasing its value.

The Jet Zero Council is a partnership between the aviation trade and the UK authorities how one can drive down the sector’s emissions to succeed in net-zero by 2050. Gilthorpe can be presently chief working officer of London Heathrow airport.

Gilthorpe, showing on the Home of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee final week, stated: “We should again SAF in order that we are able to scale up and get the value down. We’re at an inflexion level; we have now to maintain up the momentum within the subsequent couple of years.

“We have to finalise the mandate of 10 per cent SAF by 2030. It’s, in impact, signalling the demand out there.

“SAF is roughly 4 occasions dearer than kerosene. So long as we have now that value differential, it’s going to have a dampening impact in the marketplace.”

Aviation minister Robert Courts, showing on the identical committee listening to, stated: “We now have heard very clearly the request from the trade. Mandating is one thing we’re consulting on and sit up for bringing it ahead as quickly as we are able to.”

Courts added that the topic of utilizing SAF was “difficult” as a result of reality the gas may be made up of various supplies, akin to crops, waste and air seize, which have been all at totally different phases of improvement.

France has already launched a mandate requiring all airways refuelling within the nation to make use of not less than one per cent of SAF of their gas combine from 1 January 2022. This share is ready to extend to 2 per cent in 2025 and 5 per cent in 2030.