Follow 10 inches The pipeline that runs in the south of the Munypolis – St. Paul International Airport, and after 13 miles you will find yourself in a possible future center for sustainable airline fuel in the upper Middle West.
in A deal was announced in SeptemberThe Koch Industries Pine Bind, Minnesota, pipeline, will get the airport, where it will be used by the Airlines Delta and other tankers.
The project supporters, including his financial supporters, said last year that up to 60 million gallons of mixed fuel, which is likely to reach 50 percent SAF, will flow by 2025, and aims to produce 1 billion Galon SAF per year, which will exceed the demand at Minneapolis Airport and make the center a product for additional airports in All parts of the country and perhaps the world. (There is no timeline for the refinery to strike this biggest goal.)
But this project-and others love it-depends on the frameworks of financial support such as tax credits or loans that were identified under the Climate Law in the Biden 2022 administration, and the law to reduce inflation, which may now be taken.
Late last month, Montana renewed renewable energy sources, which is only one of the few American SAF producers – the planned supplier of the first batches of the Minnesota Center – that the first segment of $ 782 million at a value of $ 1.67 billion from the Ministry of Energy was subject. Tactics to confirm alignment with the priorities of the White House. ” The financing, which was estimated at the project financing, is unprecedented.)
Scott Erwin, professor of agricultural economics and consumer economy at the University of Illinois, says that federal incentives such are “life support” under the Trump administration. According to Irwin, the Trump administration has so far shown that it is ready to dismantle the law of inflation completely and financing it, even if it means that the promises in the back for farmers and companies that have already started carrying out climate launch work.
While government incentives programs along with low -carbon fuel standards still support SAF production, Irwin does not see who can intervene to replace the federal government in the credit stack if the financing is withdrawn. He says: “Without incentives in the law to reduce inflation, SAF has died in the water.”
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Wire spoke late last year to Jake Rent, Vice President of Flint Hills Resources, the company within the Koch Industries that owns Pine Bend and many other refineries, petrochemical factories, and pipelines. (Flint Hills is the company that concluded the deal with Delta and other companies’ partners to use mixed fuel from Payne Bend.) Even before Donald Trump was re -elected, he re -clarified the challenges of the SAF industry intensification.
Under the plan, the Pine Bend will empty SAF, which is produced elsewhere of the SHEL trucks, the distributor in the arrangement, then mixes it with the current jet fuel mix. This will require Pine Bend to order specialized pumps that Reint will not be delivered for a year-and cannot be requested until a comprehensive planning process is completed, including accurate estimates of the short term demand.
