Aviation: Fuels

(asked on 14th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress has been made on the construction of sustainable aviation fuel production plants by the five Advanced Fuels Fund competition winners.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 20th April 2023

The Department announced on 22 December 2022 that five sustainable aviation fuel projects would receive a share of the £165m Advanced Fuels Fund. The aim is to take as many of these as possible through to commercial scale production.

Timelines differ between projects, but the funding is being used for feasibility studies; pre-front engineering and design; front end engineering and design; and parts of engineering, procurement and construction. The Department for Transport cannot comment on the progress of individual projects due to commercial sensitivity. The Department for Transport remains on track to achieve its wider aim of at least five commercial-scale SAF plants under construction in the UK by 2025.

The Government launched the second round of the Advanced Fuels Fund on 30 March 2023.

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