Southwest Airways has invested in SAFFire Renewables, an organization shaped by D3Max as a part of a undertaking supported by the US Division of Vitality to develop and produce scalable sustainable aviation gas, the airline introduced Wednesday.
Funded by a DOE grant matched by Southwest’s funding, SAFFire will use know-how developed by DOE’s Nationwide Renewable Vitality Laboratory to transform corn stover, a waste feedstock in america, into renewable ethanol that might then be upgraded to SAF.
The businesses didn’t disclose funding particulars, however in November 2021 D3Max acquired an almost $500,000 DOE grant for SAF manufacturing, a portion of greater than $64 million DOE awarded for biofuel analysis to cut back transportation emissions. On Wednesday, the DOE introduced that it will present an extra $59 million to speed up the manufacturing of biofuels and bioproducts to cut back emissions from transportation.
