Eight companies
will get a share of a £15 million fund to help them develop proposals to build
plants in the UK that can produce sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) using a range of innovative
technologies.
The companies will receive
funding as part of the Green Fuels, Green Skies competition announced in March and their proposals
include producing SAFs from:
- carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere with hydrogen from water;
- alcohol derived from wastes, including flue gases from industry;
- everyday household and commercial black bag rubbish;
- sewage.
Transport secretary
Grant Shapps said: “Aviation will be central to our future growth and plans to
build back greener from the pandemic, which is why we have invested over £20
million in the past year to decarbonise the sector in line with our
world-leading net zero targets.
“With 100 days to
go until COP26, we’re ramping up our efforts even further to
help companies break ground on trailblazing waste to jet fuel plants and put
the UK at the forefront of international SAF production.”
The Government believes
the SAF sector could create 11,000 green jobs by 2040 with this funding helping
to kickstart the creation of over 1,000 jobs in plants built in Cheshire,
Lincolnshire, Tees Valley and South Wales among other locations.