UK Government pledges £53 million of SAF funding

The UK Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund has announced £53 million of funding to be split between nine Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) initiatives. The latest round of funding – which is designed to help companies convert waste materials and by-products into fuels – will help ‘nine pioneering projects’ located around the UK: creating up to 10,000 green jobs by 2035 and boosting the economy by around £1.8 billion every year. This year’s winning projects include a demo plant converting sawmill and forestry waste, and a commercial plant using power-to-liquid technology to convert CO2 and green hydrogen into plane fuel;