U.S. Manufacturing Capability for Sustainable Aviation Gasoline to Develop – CleanTechnica – Uplaza

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Manufacturing capability of sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) in america might improve from round 2,000 barrels per day (b/d) to just about 30,000 b/d in 2024 if all introduced capability additions come on line. Builders anticipate Phillips 66’s Rodeo Renewed venture to provide as much as about 10,000 b/d of SAF starting this summer season, they usually anticipate Diamond Inexperienced Diesel’s Port Arthur SAF venture to provide about 15,000 b/d of SAF by the top of the yr.

SAF is a substitute for petroleum jet gasoline. It’s produced from agricultural and waste feedstocks and is consumed in blends with petroleum jet gasoline. Investments in SAF have elevated because of the U.S. Environmental Safety Company’s Renewable Gasoline Commonplace (RFS), federal tax credit, and state packages and tax credit incentivizing use of the gasoline. The White Home additionally set a aim of assembly 100% of U.S. aviation gasoline demand with SAF by 2050. About 1.6 million b/d of petroleum jet gasoline was consumed in america in 2023, and we venture U.S. jet gasoline demand in 2050 to exceed 2.0 million b/d in our 2023 Annual Vitality Outlook.

We seize SAF manufacturing information within the Different Biofuels class of our Petroleum Provide Month-to-month. Along with SAF, our Different Biofuels class consists of renewable heating oil, renewable naphtha, renewable propane, renewable gasoline, and different rising biofuels which might be in varied levels of improvement and commercialization.

Traditionally, manufacturing of Different Biofuels in america has been minimal. Nevertheless, as a result of renewable naphtha and renewable propane are by-products of a rising renewable diesel business, manufacturing of Different Biofuels has been rising as effectively. U.S. manufacturing of Different Biofuels elevated from simply 2,000 b/d in 2020 to 19,000 b/d in 2023.

SAF manufacturing has traditionally comprised a small portion of Different Biofuels manufacturing due to restricted manufacturing capability. Initially of 2024, U.S. SAF manufacturing capability was solely round 2,000 b/d, with solely two crops able to producing SAF: World Vitality’s plant in Paramount, California, and Montana Renewables’ plant in Nice Falls, Montana.

In our newest Brief-Time period Vitality Outlook, we forecast that U.S. manufacturing of Different Biofuels will improve by about 50% in 2024 and nearly double from 2024 to 2025. We don’t publish a forecast for every gasoline that makes up the class.

The first driver for our forecasted improve in Different Biofuels manufacturing—from 19,000 b/d in 2023 to 51,000 b/d in 2025—is rising U.S. SAF manufacturing capability. As a result of we forecast renewable diesel manufacturing to proceed rising, we additionally anticipate manufacturing of renewable diesel by-products to extend by way of 2025 and clarify a number of the development in our Different Biofuels manufacturing forecast.

Principal contributor: Jimmy Troderman. Initially printed on At the moment in Vitality.