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Q8Aviation has selected ETFuels as a proposed long-term eSAF supplier from Project Kings Road Humber, a planned 70,000-tonne-a-year methanol-to-jet plant at the Port of Immingham, and the two are negotiating a binding offtake. No volume, price or term has been disclosed, and the project, still at front-end engineering design, has not reached a final investment decision.
News · Policy & Regulation
EASA published version 2.2 of its ReFuelEU Aviation reporting manual for airlines and verifiers on 12 October 2026; it calls the changes minor clarifications, and the Regulation’s 31 March reporting deadline is unchanged. The guidance defines three verification opinions, makes the supplier VAT field explicitly optional and adds annexes on supporting evidence.
News · Policy & Regulation
A Boeing-funded assessment by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials rates India 52% ready to scale SAF, with feedstock at 78% and market demand at 30%. It finds the 2027–2030 blending targets indicative, international-only and not yet backed by binding offtake or SAF-specific finance.
News · Regional Markets
Green Fuel Forward’s 48-member alliance adds procurement expertise, but contracted volumes and certificate accounting remain the next tests.
News · Economics & Investment
Jet Zero’s new funding will advance engineering for its Townsville SAF and renewable-diesel project. Development approval is secured; FID remains ahead.
News · Policy & Regulation
Singapore confirms its passenger SAF levy timetable and delays cargo collection. SAFCo will allocate emissions attributes separately from the physical fuel.
News · Policy & Regulation
Brussels adopted its EU ETS revision on 17 July, extending aviation carbon pricing to departures within 5,000 km from 2029 and reserving roughly €15 billion of allowances for SAF through 2040 — a tenfold increase on the current scheme.
News · Economics & Investment
DfT's RCM allocation strategy sizes Round 1 at 230,000 tonnes a year with contracts awarded from Q4 2028, and refuses a power-to-liquid ring-fence — against modelled e-SAF strike prices of £6,700 to £8,900 a tonne.
News · Economics & Investment
Brussels approved €290 million of Dutch SAF aid, the first clearance under the Clean Industrial Deal framework — backing advanced bio-SAF and e-SAF while deliberately excluding HEFA, for about 285,000 tonnes a year of capacity.
News · Emerging Technologies
Worley has completed FEED on Alfanar's £2 billion Teesside SAF refinery — 180 million litres a year from biomass residues, and the first European Fischer-Tropsch SAF plant to reach execution-ready design. FID is still targeted for Q4 2027.
News · Airlines & Industry
IBA models the EU ETS expansion options and finds extending to all EEA departures would more than double aviation coverage, with KLM most exposed.
News · Economics & Investment
UK DfT opens a SAF Mandate Call for Evidence asking industry whether the HEFA cap and PtL obligation can hold once binding supply pressures arrive in 2027-2028.
