World’s first industrial plant for synthetic crude kerosene from electricty starts production

In Germany, the world’s first industrial plant for the production of electricity-based CO₂-neutral kerosene for aviation has achieved a significant milestone towards full-scale operation, producing its first five tons of synthetic crude kerosene. This makes the atmosfair plant the first to successfully produce this new type of aviation fuel. The plant was built and financed by the climate organisation atmosfair and its operating company Solarbelt and was inaugurated in 2021 by then Environment Minister Svenja Schulze.

The plant is intended to demonstrate that the industrial production of electricity-based synthetic kerosene is technically possible, using only renewable energies and other fully renewable resources. The process is considered the most significant method for decarbonizing a substantial portion of air traffic in the long term.