During the past few days, Jan Toschka, Zaffra CEO, attended various discussions at two very different events, Sustainable Aviation Futures in Houston and the Sustainability Conference in Hamburg which both resulted in very similar conclusions. Jan shares his insights:
In Houston, it was certainly good to see more critical/realistic discussions about ‘food vs fuel’, ‘mandate vs incentives’, bankability (obviously) and, ultimately, achieving the ‘3bln gallon SAF by 2030 ambition’.
Whether future incentives will (or should) enable SAF prices at parity with conventional jet fuel or whether mandates could do a better job funding the higher SAF cost (in both scenarios the cost for SAF will ultimately be paid by the passengers), or whether national SAF production should only use national feedstock (which I doubt to be a good idea), two points came out of the conference very clearly: HEFA technology won’t produce the amounts of SAF needed, so that PTL (and other) technologies need to be scaled now… for which long term and predictable (bankable) policy framework is needed.
The very same conclusion was reached at Hamburg Sustainability Conference, where key players of the aviation industry and the German federal ministry for economic cooperation and development signed the Declaration on Green Aviation highlighting the need to work funding and financial mechanisms to transition to synthetic aviation fuels. That‘s what we do!
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