At this year’s NBAA Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference, which kicked off today in California at the San Diego Convention Center, Avfuel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producer Neste will be exhibiting together for the first time. The fuel distributor and fuel manufacturer first announced a strategic partnership in January 2021.
“Our goal of any convention is to connect attendees with the solutions they need for safe, efficient operations,” explained Marci Ammerman, Avfuel’s v-p of marketing. “Sustainable solutions have increasingly become important to our clientele and we are thrilled to be able to directly connect them to Neste to learn more about the efficacy of SAF.”
SAF, a drop-in fuel that is fully miscible with standard jet-A, currently represents the most immediate and effective way to reduce aviation’s carbon footprint. Each 8,000-gallon truckload of the fuel, which is derived from renewable sources such as used cooking oil and other residues and then blended with conventional jet fuel, provides a 19-tonne reduction in carbon emissions over its lifecycle. It is approved at blends of up to 50 percent, but in the future, when SAF is used in its neat, unblended form it can deliver up to 80 percent fewer emissions than traditional jet fuel.