December 05, 2024 [SAF Investor]- European airline easyJet has announced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) agreement with Italian energy firm EniLive for the airline’s flights departing from Milan Malpensa Airport.
“SAF is key to our decarbonisation strategy and will play a vital role in helping the aviation sector achieve its net zero ambitions. We are therefore delighted to be working with Enilive and with our key partner Sea to sign this agreement and hope it provides another positive signal to stimulate further growth of the SAF industry,” said Raminder Shergill, director of tax and fuel strategy at easyJet.
The SAF, blended with conventional jet fuel to a 20% purity, will power easyJet’s new routes to Norway: Malpensa-Oslo and Malpensa-Tromsø. This initiative aligns with easyJet’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint and meeting the requirements of the SEA’s SAF Support Program 2024.
“Today, SAF is the available solution to help decarbonize air transport. In the future, following the implementation of the European Union’s ReFuelEU regulation, which calls for a gradual increase of pure SAF input to 70% by 2050, there will be an increasingly more significant demand by operators such as easyJet, which is credited with being ahead of its time as it has already begun to use our SAF. To meet the market needs, we are developing new biorefining projects in Italy and abroad,” said Stefano Ballista, CEO, Enilive.
In addition to this, the two companies have signed a letter of intent to explore the potential supply of an additional 30,000 tonnes of pure Enilive SAF to other Italian airports served by easyJet.
This partnership is part of easyJet’s broader strategy to support the growth of the SAF market.
The airline has recently joined Project SkyPower, a consortium aimed at accelerating the development of e-SAF production in Europe.
Enilive’s produces SAF from sustainable feedstocks such as used cooking oil, animal fats, and agricultural residues. The company is committed to expanding its SAF production capacity, with plans to reach 1m tons per year by 2026 and potentially double that by 2030.
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