Airlines: 1% biofuel by 2015
The world’s largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft Boeing expects 1% of fuel used by commercial airlines to be sourced from biomass by 2015.
‘We need to get to 1% to get that foundation and then the trajectory will be significantly steeper,’ Billy Glover, MD of environmental strategy at Boeing’s commercial airplanes unit, says. ‘We’re aiming for a 1 percent penetration around the middle of this decade, and we think that’s quite achievable.’
Boeing has worked with airlines from the US to Japan to test jet fuels made from plants such as jatropha and camelina.
Airlines are striving to reduce emissions that the United Nations says account for at least 3% of the global warming gas pollution.
The environment group Greenpeace estimates output of the gases from carriers will double by 2050. To help curb pollution, the 27-nation European Union will bring airlines into its carbon cap-and trade system in 2012.
Airlines including Virgin, Air New Zealand, Continental and Japan Airlines have tested biofuels sourced from various crops in their planes.
US-based Solena Group intends to build a waste-to-biofuels plant in east London. The $300 million (€232.6 million) plant will create 1,200 jobs, and British Airways will buy all of the plant’s 16 million gallons of biofuel annually for up to 10 years.
California’s green fuel and chemical producer Solazyme aims to build a plant by 2013 to make 50 million to 120 million gallons of biofuel at a cost of more than $100 million.
Source: Bloomberg
‘We need to get to 1% to get that foundation and then the trajectory will be significantly steeper,’ Billy Glover, MD of environmental strategy at Boeing’s commercial airplanes unit, says. ‘We’re aiming for a 1 percent penetration around the middle of this decade, and we think that’s quite achievable.’
Boeing has worked with airlines from the US to Japan to test jet fuels made from plants such as jatropha and camelina.
Airlines are striving to reduce emissions that the United Nations says account for at least 3% of the global warming gas pollution.
The environment group Greenpeace estimates output of the gases from carriers will double by 2050. To help curb pollution, the 27-nation European Union will bring airlines into its carbon cap-and trade system in 2012.
Airlines including Virgin, Air New Zealand, Continental and Japan Airlines have tested biofuels sourced from various crops in their planes.
US-based Solena Group intends to build a waste-to-biofuels plant in east London. The $300 million (€232.6 million) plant will create 1,200 jobs, and British Airways will buy all of the plant’s 16 million gallons of biofuel annually for up to 10 years.
California’s green fuel and chemical producer Solazyme aims to build a plant by 2013 to make 50 million to 120 million gallons of biofuel at a cost of more than $100 million.
Source: Bloomberg
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