Refiners and the aviation industry are on track to produce nearly 3 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel annually by 2030, according to a new report. But it will take a sustained and long-term effort to meet the Biden administration’s goal of fully decarbonizing jet fuel production by 2050.
Hitting that 2030 mark is the first step — but still only a small part of total U.S. jet fuel consumption.
If industry is able to ramp up its production over the next six years and churn out 3 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel annually, it still would represent just 10 percent of the fuel that’s projected to be burned by jet engines in 2030, according to a report released Wednesday by the Energy Department.
And decarbonizing all jet fuel by 2050 would require producing 35 billion gallons of green fuel a year, the report said.
