1, E-fuels for aviation. NGO Transport and Environment says that there are now 25 industrial scale projects in Europe seeking to manufacture synthetic fuels for airplanes. If all are built, they will provide about 1.7 million tonnes of aviation kerosene, or about 4% of total current needs. This comfortably meets the EU quotas for 2030. But Transport and Environment warns that none of these proposed plants have received formal go-ahead from their investors. That’s probably somewhat harsh because projects such as Infinium’s in France with Engie will almost certainly go into construction. Nevertheless the NGO is right to note that synthetic fuels plants, alongside many other hydrogen production projects, are not moving ahead as fast as hoped.
It is good to read of so many advances in how we are finding ways out of the climate crisis.