UK SAF mandate to activate in Jan 2025
UK government has confirmed that its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandate will come into force in January 2025. In September 2023, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced a ‘revenue certainty mechanism’ to kickstart the SAF industry. To make this happen the DfT introduced a SAF mandate which will require at least 10% of all jet fuel in flights taking off from the UK to come from sustainable feedstocks by 2030. SAFs are...
European Union petition for international levy on Jet A1 fuel
The European Union (EU) lobbying for an international tax on Jet A1 fuel in a move to finance climate action via levies on polluting industries. According to Wopke Hoekstra, EU’s climate commissioner, China, Zambia, Brazil and the Gulf nations are among those that have expressed interest in such a tax in talks leading up to the UN’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Unlike other fuels, Jet A1 (kerosene) is exempt from tax throughout the...
Environmental Protection Agency’s ongoing pathway to axe Avgas
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced its final determination on high octane low lead aviation gasoline (Avgas 100LL). The finding confirms plans to define a pathway that will ultimately enable a safe transition to a lead-free replacement. According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) executive director for aircraft certification service, Lirio Liu, testing on lead-free replacements is still ongoing, plus...
100 octane unleaded fuel gains blanket FAA approval
The search for an unleaded replacement to 100LL aviation fuel could finally be over following the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) signing on 01 September of a supplemental type certificate (STC) that allows General Aviation Modifications Inc.’s (GAMI) 100-octane unleaded aviation fuel (G100UL) to be used in every GA piston engine and every airframe powered by those engines. The move has been hailed by the aviation industry...
