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Follow the 10 inches The pipeline that extends south from the Minneapolis International Airport, and after 13 miles, will be in the future potentially important center for sustainable aviation fuel in the upper west.
In An agreement announced in SeptemberThe refinery of bles bles of Koch Industries in Rosemount, Minnesota, would receive sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), combined with non -petroleum raw materials, such as renewable materials or waste, enclose it in its fuel for conventional airplanes and send the combination of fuel to through the fuel mixture the airport pipe, where it will be used by Delta Airlines and other carriers.
The proponents of the project, including their financial sponsors Deloitte and Bank of America, said last year that up to 60 million combined fuel gallons, which potentially contain up to 50 percent of SAF, would flow by 2025, and its goal is to produce a thousand Millions of one billion Gallons of SAF per year, which would exceed the demand at the Minneapolis airport and made a producer for airports additional throughout the country, and potentially in the world. (There is no time frame for the refinery to reach this largest goal).
But this project, and other similar ones, depends on financial support frameworks such as fiscal credits or loans that were established under the climate law of the Biden 2022 administration, the inflation reduction law and which can now be removed.
At the end of last month, Montana Renewables, one of the few producers of the US SAF 1.67 billion of the energy department was undergoing a “” tactical delay to confirm alignment with the priorities of the White House. “(The Montana Senator, Steve Daines, said on February 11 that the financing, which is taken into account to finance the project, since then has not been frozen).
Federal incentives such as this are “in a life support” under the Trump administration, says Scott Irwin, professor of agricultural and consumption economy at the University of Illinois. According to Irwin, the Trump administration has so far demonstrated that it is willing to completely dismantle the inflation reduction law and its financing, even if that means promises to farmers and companies that have already begun to implement intelligent climate work.
Although state incentive programs together with low carbon fuel standards still support SAF production, Irwin does not see who could intervene to replace the federal government in the credit pile if the funds are removed. “Without incentives in the inflation reduction law, SAF is dead in water,” he says.
The mathematics of the refinery no longer add
At the end of last year, Wired spoke with Jake Reint, vice president of external affairs of Flint Hills Resources, the company within Koch Industries that Pine Bend and several other refineries, petrochemical plants and pipes have. (Flint Hills is the company that reached the agreement with Delta and other corporate partners to use the combined pine bles fuel). Even before Donald Trump was chosen, he reached the challenges of increasing the SAF industry.
According to the plan, Pine Bles will download the SAF produced in another place of trucks operated by Shell, the distributor in the arrangement, and then mixed it with its combination of fuel for existing airplanes. This will require Pine Beb to order specialized bombs that, according to him, will not be delivered for a year, and cannot be ordered until an exhaustive planning process is completed, including precise estimates for short -term demand.
