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CSIRO’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Roadmap, developed in concert with Boeing, asserts that Australia has a “moment-in-time opportunity” to develop its own SAF industry, with domestic demand for jet fuel expected to surge 75 per cent by 2050.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will issue grants across the supply chain to support domestic production of SAF from agricultural feedstocks, with applications to open from mid-July.
Dovetail, which is 20 per cent owned by Rex, will use HTWO’s fuel cells for initial testing in Australia as a preliminary step to full-scale trials, with an eye to conducting a first flight next year. The HTWO system will be integrated with Dovetail’s Iron Bird, which was successfully tested last year.
Echoing a similar investment by Qantas and Airbus in Queensland, the funding – comprising NZ$1.5 million from Air New Zealand and NZ$765,000 from the government – will go towards next-stage feasibility studies into developing a domestic SAF industry in New Zealand.
Queensland-based regional carrier Skytrans is looking to fly between Brisbane and Gladstone using a 15-seat Stralis B1900D-HE, which is a modified Beechcraft 1900D turboprop plane designed and built in Brisbane by Stralis Aircraft. The engines and kerosene fuel system will be replaced by a Hydrogen Electric Propulsion System (HEPS) and liquid hydrogen storage tank, which will emit only water vapour.
The site in Queensland will transform agricultural by-products, including sugarcane, into up to 100 million litres of SAF per year.
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