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Sustainable aviation gas (SAF) manufacturing is rising in the USA as new capacity comes online. U.S. manufacturing of Different Biofuels, the class we use to seize SAF in our Petroleum Supply Monthlyroughly doubled from December 2024 to February 2025.
SAF is an alternative choice to petroleum jet gas. It’s produced from agricultural and waste feedstocks and is consumed in blends with petroleum jet gas. Investments in SAF have elevated due to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), federal tax credit, and state packages and tax credit incentivizing use of the gas.
Along with SAF, our Different Biofuels class consists of renewable heating oil, renewable naphtha, renewable propane, renewable gasoline, and different emerging biofuels which are in varied levels of growth and commercialization.
Previous to 2025, renewable naphtha and renewable propane, that are byproducts of renewable diesel manufacturing, made up most of Different Biofuels manufacturing and was rising due to growing renewable diesel production. SAF made up solely a small portion of Different Biofuels manufacturing due to restricted manufacturing capability. Originally of 2024, U.S. SAF manufacturing capability was solely round 2,000 barrels per day (b/d), with simply two crops able to producing SAF: World Energy’s plant in Paramount, California, and Montana Renewables’ plant in Nice Falls, Montana.
U.S. SAF manufacturing capability elevated by about 25,000 b/d in late 2024. Phillips 66 accomplished its 10,000-b/d SAF undertaking in Rodeo, California, within the third quarter of 2024 (3Q24), earlier than quickly halting manufacturing in 4Q24. Diamond Inexperienced Diesel completed its 15,000-b/d SAF project in Port Arthur, Texas, in 4Q24.
A few smaller tasks will convey extra SAF manufacturing capability on-line in 2025. New Rise Renewables announced it began SAF production at its plant in Reno, Nevada, in February 2025, including as much as 3,000 b/d of SAF manufacturing. Par Pacific plans to begin SAF production at its plant in Kapolei, Hawaii, within the second half of the 12 months, including about 2,000 b/d of SAF manufacturing capability.
With SAF manufacturing capability now round 30,000 b/d and rising in 2025, SAF will possible drive important development in Different Biofuels manufacturing and make up most of U.S. Different Biofuels manufacturing.
In January, U.S. manufacturing of Different Biofuels reached 33,000 b/d, almost 30% greater than the earlier file excessive set in September 2024. Manufacturing elevated one other 30% in February to 44,000 b/d. In our newest Short-Term Energy Outlookwe forecast that U.S. manufacturing of Other Biofuels will greater than double between 2024 and 2025 and improve by about one other 20% in 2026. Though we don’t publish a forecast for every gas that makes up the class, we anticipate elevated SAF manufacturing to drive most of that development. Regardless of sturdy development in SAF on a proportion foundation, absolutely the volumes will stay comparatively low, making up lower than 2% of about 1.7 million b/d of U.S. jet fuel consumption in 2025 and about 2% in 2026.
Principal contributor: Jimmy Troderman. Article from Today in Energy.
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