DG Fuels has chosen Moorhead, Minnesota, as the site of a $5 billion sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility. With a planned capacity of 193 million gallons of SAF a year, the plant—which will use agricultural and wood waste as feedstock—would represent half the annual jet fuel usage at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (KMSP). It is expected to be operational by the end of this decade.
The news was greeted with enthusiasm by the Minnesota SAF Hub, which looks to establish the first large-scale SAF production value chain in the region and its leadership in the Greater MSP Partnership. This move represents the most significant commitment yet toward establishing commercial-scale SAF production in the state.
Additionally, it furthers the hub’s key goals of creating demand in order to attract supply, partnering with the state of Minnesota to incentivize and de-risk the SAF market, and ensuring that the benefits of the state’s SAF economy will accrue statewide.
“This exciting announcement demonstrates how building a new SAF economy in Minnesota will create opportunities that stretch from the tarmac of KMSP to every corner of the state,” said Greater MSP Partnership president and CEO Peter Frosch.
Earlier this year, DG Fuels announced similar projects in Louisiana (118 million gallons of annual SAF production by 2028) and Nebraska (193 million gallons by 2030).