ORLEN SA has began providing sustainable aviation gas (SAF) at airports in Warsaw, Krakow and Katowice.
“The inclusion of SAF in our aviation gas portfolio marks one other step in implementing our 2035 technique”, Ireneusz Sitarski, vp of ORLEN’s administration board for wholesale and logistics, stated in a press launch. Poland’s majority state-owned ORLEN already provides aviation fuels Jet A-1 and AVGAS 100 LL, which the corporate says can serve all forms of plane.
“We’re increasing our product portfolio whereas responding to the necessity to decarbonize operations on each the availability and demand aspect”, Sitarski added.
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Adam Sanocki, member of Polish Airports SA’s administration board in control of technique and advertising and marketing, commented, “The introduction of SAF at Warsaw Chopin Airport is a significant milestone within the aviation sector’s transition towards local weather neutrality. Our precedence is to ascertain the situations mandatory for carriers to scale back emissions and progress their sustainability methods”.
LOT Polish Airways chief working officer Dorota Dmuchowska stated, “The introduction of SAF into the Polish market is a crucial step for us within the technique of adapting to regulatory necessities stemming from the ReFuelEU Aviation regulation”.
“Though entry to SAF stays restricted, its availability at chosen airports within the nation will considerably facilitate the implementation of LOT’s Sustainable Growth and Decarbonization Technique, consistent with the corporate’s growth plans”, Dmuchowska added.
“The deployment of such fuels requires exact logistical planning, which is why we admire ORLEN’s initiative, as it would undoubtedly assist us in assembly the aims of the EU necessities”.
The ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation adopted October 2023 requires greater airports within the European Union to boost the share of SAFs of their gas combine steadily.
Every airport that falls underneath the regulation should have not less than two p.c of SAF of their whole consumption beginning this 12 months. That should improve to 6 p.c from 2030; 20 p.c from 2035; 34 p.c from 2040; 42 p.c from 2045; and 70 p.c from 2050.
The necessities apply to, as acknowledged within the textual content of the regulation, airports with “greater than 800 000 passengers or the place the freight visitors was greater than 100 000 tonnes within the earlier reporting interval, and which isn’t located in an outermost area”.
Thought of SAF by the regulation are biofuels, recycled carbon fuels and artificial fuels.
ORLEN stated, “SAF is produced from renewable or waste-derived feedstocks that meet established sustainability standards and don’t contribute to deforestation or the depletion of meals and water sources. Relying on the manufacturing know-how, feedstocks might embody used cooking oils, in addition to municipal, industrial, agricultural, and forestry waste. In apply, the renewable element is mixed with common jet gas”.
It additionally plans to construct a hydrogen refueling station on the Warsaw Chopin Airport to provide hydrogen to zero-emission floor assist autos. The plan is a part of HySPARK (Hydrogen Options for euroPean Airports & Regional Kinetics), an EU-funded undertaking with ORLEN because the hydrogen provider.
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