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Technip Energies, Airbus, Safran and Tereos Launch Rebound JV for 160,000-Tonne Alcohol-to-Jet Plant at Dunkirk

June 9, 2026

France’s biggest alcohol-to-jet push, anchored by Tereos-sourced advanced ethanol with Airbus and Safran as offtake facilitators

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Swedish Energy Agency Awards SEK 231M to SkyNRG-Skellefteå Kraft eSAF Project in Skellefteå
Industriklivet grant funds pre-FID engineering for a 120,000-tonne-per-year eSAF facility at Skellefteå Näsudden, with a final investment decision targeted for 2027.
LanzaTech Picks Ghent for Europe's First Commercial Alcohol-to-Jet Plant
FLITE consortium's €500 million facility at North Sea Port will run on ArcelorMittal Steelanol ethanol from across the canal, sized for 79,000 tonnes of SAF and 9,000 tonnes of renewable diesel a year.
Syntholene Energy Signs Husavik Site Lease to Test Geothermal eSAF at a Historic Iceland Power Station
The Canadian startup has secured a site lease and construction permit at the Husavik Power Station to run 1,000 hours of effects testing on a thermally-integrated SOEC electrolyzer it claims can produce synthetic jet fuel at 70% lower cost than competing technologies.
DHL and IAG Cargo Lock In 240 Million Litres of SAF at Heathrow Through 2030
Five years, 40 million litres of neat SAF per year for DHL Express, 640,000 tonnes of CO2e avoided: the cargo-airline model taking shape at Europe's busiest hub.
Hormuz Blockade Sends Jet Fuel to $205 a Barrel and Cancels Thousands of Flights
Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered emergency fuel rationing at seven Italian airports, forced airlines to cut routes and raise fares, and sharpened the energy security case for domestic SAF production
Aviator Sweden Cut Its Business Travel Emissions in Half — Using SAF, Not Offsets
The Nordic ground handler joined Swedavia's SAF auction and reduced business travel emissions by approximately 50% in 2025, while making its ground handling operations fully fossil-free
OMV Backs Europe's First Multi-Pathway SAF Research Facility at TU Leoben
A dedicated building at Austria's Technical University of Leoben will test multiple SAF production routes side-by-side, using process simulation and machine learning to accelerate scale-up
The UK ETS Has a SAF Problem — and a New Consultation to Fix It
The UK ETS Authority is asking whether SAF should still be zero-rated and which fuels should qualify — with responses due by 15 June 2026
Europe's Airline CEOs Accept the 6% SAF Target. They're Drawing the Line at eSAF.
Airlines for Europe's 16-member CEO Declaration calls for eSAF postponement as regulatory costs hit €15.5 billion and the EU's July ETS review approaches
330 Million Allowances, 4% Back to SAF: IATA Demands an EU ETS Overhaul
IATA says aviation will surrender nearly 330 million EU allowances by 2030 while the SAF Allowance scheme covers just 4-5% of the industry's actual needs.