RE: Select Committee worth watching19 May 2022 12:53
I listened to the first part where Emma Gilthorpe, CEO, Jet Zero Council and Sophie Lane, Chief Relationships Officer, Aerospace Technology Institute were answering the questions. Basically push SAF hard NOW as hydrogen is a way off. SAF is the way to go now whilst still investing in other technologies. Make the 10% of drop in SAF a mandate and not a guidance so industry has a clear idea of demand. Get the price difference down of kerosene vs SAF down via a mechanism (they mentioned contacts for difference as was used in wind power ) or how the USA is proposing and via scalability to get costs down. Velocys and Lanzajet both got a mention in respect to the smaller players that can help ramp up production/give competition to the fuel behemoths. It was said that Easyjet was using 30% drop in SAF flying people to COP26 and that all flights taking people there had some form of SAF. GLA