In Illinois, Project Speedbird – a joint partnership between LanzaJet, British Airways (BA), and Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) – said it has secured new funding totaling $11.2 million from the UK Government’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) competition.
LanzaJet, and NPT, a UK-based cleantech company developing advanced biofuels used to produce SAF, will receive the funding to increase global SAF production and decarbonize the aviation industry.
The SAF will be developed using a combination of NPT’s innovative technology, which converts agricultural waste and wood residue feedstocks into second-generation biofuels such as ethanol, and LanzaJet’s proprietary technology that converts ethanol into SAF. The NPT ethanol will be initially processed into SAF through LanzaJet’s Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) plant in Soperton, Georgia prior to Project Speedbird’s own larger ATJ facility, planned to be built in the UK by 2027. British Airways is intending to purchase all the SAF produced through Project Speedbird to help power some of its flights.
Project Speedbird will produce 27 million gallons of SAF per year and will produce SAF at full capacity by 2028.
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