Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) represent a major new market opportunity for biofuels. Ethanol is positioned as the most attractive long-term feedstock for U.S. SAF production, with a potential low-cost supply of 18 billion gallons and a well-established infrastructure network to support increased growth. The U.S. ethanol industry is uniquely positioned to boost American energy production for SAF, led by America's farmers, decreasing our reliance on foreign oil, creating new manufacturing jobs in the heartland, and helping secure our energy future.
Efficiency improvements and innovation at U.S. biorefineries, together with integration of combined heat and power and the use of renewable energy sources, are lowering carbon intensity (CI) scores. Combined with climate-smart farming practices and implementation of carbon capture, utilization and sequestration could lead to the production of ethanol-based SAF with a greater than 50% reduction in CI compared to petroleum-derived SAF.
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- U.S. alcohol-to-jet SAF biorefinery projects
- RFA is a member of the SAF Coalition
