Eni SpA has signed a deal to ship sustainable aviation gas (SAF) for a couple of easyJet flights over the winter and secured a preliminary settlement that will make the Italian vitality main a provider for the pan-European provider by way of 2030.
“The SAF bought by easyJet, which has a purity of 20 p.c and is mixed with standard jet [fuel], permits the airline to fulfill its necessities for flights on its two new routes to Norway (Malpensa-Oslo and Malpensa-Tromsø) over the winter season”, a joint assertion mentioned.
“Moreover, the airline will profit from [airport operator] SEA’s SAF Help Program 2024, which has offered a contribution of €800/ton to carriers that use this gas at Milan’s airports in the course of the yr, with a complete worth of €500,000”, added the assertion revealed on Eni’s web site.
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Authorities-controlled Eni, by way of its biofuel and sustainable mobility arm Enilive, additionally inked a letter of intent for the potential supply of 30,000 tons of pure SAF to easyJet between 2025 and 2030. The potential provide is deliberate for use at Italian airports the place England-based easyJet operates.
“The settlement follows a sequence of current commitments easyJet has made to assist stimulate progress of the SAF market”, the assertion mentioned.
Earlier this month easyJet and Airbus agreed to “discover company partnerships to finance the usage of SAF with the purpose of minimizing their financial impression and thus making this answer extra inexpensive”, the assertion mentioned.
easyJet additionally introduced within the assertion that on the finish of October, it has joined Venture SkyPower, a CEO-led initiative for the industrial scale-up of e-SAF.
Eni’s present SAF manufacturing, by way of biorefineries at house, might be blended with standard jet gas as much as 50 p.c, in accordance with Eni.
Nevertheless, subsequent yr, Eni expects to have unlocked pure SAF manufacturing of 400,000 tons every year (MMtpa) by way of the Gela biorefinery. The venture is anticipated to succeed in one MMtpa by 2026, with a plan for additional capability progress.
“Sooner or later, following the implementation of the European Union’s ReFuelEU regulation, which requires a gradual improve of pure SAF enter to 70 p.c by 2050, there can be an more and more extra vital demand by operators similar to easyJet, which is credited with being forward of its time because it has already begun to make use of our SAF”, mentioned Enilive chief government Stefano Ballista.
The ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation requires airports within the European Union to progressively increase the share of SAFs of their gas combine.
Every airport in member states should have not less than two p.c of SAF of their complete consumption beginning 2025. That should improve to 6 p.c from 2030, to twenty p.c from 2035, to 34 p.c from 2040, to 42 p.c from 2045 and to 70 p.c from 2050, in accordance with the regulation adopted October.
Thought of SAF by the regulation are biofuels, recycled carbon fuels and artificial fuels.
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