Danish electrolyser agency Topsoe and UK-based Carbon Impartial Fuels are partnering to advance eSAF utilizing strong oxide electrolyser cell (SOEC) know-how.
Topsoe has been chosen to ship 120MW inexperienced energy for Carbon Impartial Fuels’ Mission Starling in Workington, UK, marking the primary industrial software of Topsoe’s SOEC know-how to be used in industrial SAF manufacturing.
The plant is predicted to provide 25,000 metric tonnes of e-SAF per yr. Development is deliberate for 2028 with operations anticipated in 2031 pending closing funding determination [FID].
The challenge was the most important e-fuels award of the UK Authorities’s third Superior Fuels Fund granted in July 2025.
Sundus Cordelia Ramli, CCO, Energy-to-X at Topsoe, stated Carbon Impartial Fuels is on the frontier of the UK’s decarbonisation ambitions, delivering a big SAF challenge utilizing mature and diversified manufacturing applied sciences.
Alasdair Lumsden, Co-Founder at Carbon Impartial Fuels, added the degrees of information and analysis backing the efficacy of their applied sciences “had been instrumental” in constructing confidence of their product.
The electrolyser stacks for the challenge might be delivered from Topsoe’s SOEC manufacturing facility based mostly in Herning, Denmark. First deliveries are anticipated in 2028 pending CNF reaching FID.
The Starling challenge is presently present process Entrance-Finish Engineering Design (FEED) stage.
As soon as absolutely operational, the ability is projected to attain an 89% discount in lifecycle emissions in comparison with fossil jet gasoline, making a big contribution to the UK’s local weather targets.
Finnish know-how firm Liquid Solar just lately launched what it claims is Europe’s first sustainable artificial aviation gasoline (eSAF) pilot plant in Espoo.
The European Fee has introduced a €2.9bn funding for sustainable fuels by 2027.
How SAF might be funded has been a sticking level in establishing the nascent market’s framework. Aggressive pricing isn’t simply an aspiration for creating SAF however a precondition for scale, in keeping with a brand new report.
The UK authorities has confirmed its income certainty mechanism for SAF might be funded by means of a levy on aviation gasoline suppliers.
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