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Infinium receives $75 million equity commitment for investment in West Texas eSAF project



Infinium and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst announced Nov. 29 a $75 million project equity investment commitment to support Infinium’s Project Roadrunner, subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions.


Project Roadrunner will convert waste CO2 and renewable power into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other low-carbon fuels.


This first-of-a-kind commercial-scale power-to-liquids (PtL) eFuels facility is expected to be the largest PtL eFuels project in North America once operational.


Breakthrough Energy Catalyst funds and invests in first-of-a-kind projects that support the deployment of emerging climate technologies to reduce emissions and accelerate the clean-energy transition.


This commitment represents Breakthrough Energy Catalyst’s first equity investment to date.


Project Roadrunner, located in West Texas, will convert an existing brownfield gas-to-liquids project into a fully integrated eFuels facility that will deliver products into both U.S. and international markets.


It will primarily produce Infinium eSAF, a sustainable aviation fuel with the potential to significantly reduce the lifecycle greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions associated with air travel.


PtL SAF is expected to reduce lifecycle-GHG emissions in aviation by around 90 percent.


Project Roadrunner will also produce Infinium eNaphtha for use in plastics manufacturing and Infinium eDiesel for use in hard-to-electrify transportation methods, such as long-haul trucking and maritime applications.


In tandem with Breakthrough Energy Catalyst’s investment in Infinium, American Airlines and Infinium have entered into an innovative, firm offtake agreement for Infinium eSAF.


This agreement is a critical enabler of further investment in Project Roadrunner.


American joined Breakthrough Energy Catalyst as an anchor partner to accelerate the development of next-generation clean-energy technologies, including SAF.


The Catalyst team worked to develop the agreement alongside the American and Infinium teams.


The agreement provides one model for how airlines can use offtake agreements to help promising new SAF technologies attract investment dollars.


In further support of this offtake agreement, Citi and American Airlines have separately agreed to transfer the associated emission reductions to Citi to support the scaling of this innovative technology and help reduce a portion of Citi’s scope 3 emissions from employee travel.


Citi is also a partner of Breakthrough Energy Catalyst.


Infinium has numerous eFuels projects in development across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Japan and Australia.


“The investment from Catalyst is critical to accelerating the completion of Project Roadrunner and to the delivery of significant volumes of eFuels created from waste carbon dioxide and renewable power,” said Robert Schuetzle, CEO at Infinium. “Importantly, this project will serve as a template for other, larger eFuels plants under development. The groundbreaking commercial agreement with American is an important prototype for the aviation industry as its firm offtake agreement supports project financing, providing revenue certainty for the project.”


Mario Fernandez, head of Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, added, “This project is a landmark achievement for the development of sustainable aviation fuels and the offtake agreement provides a model for the entire aviation industry of one way to effect change and support the scale up of capital-intensive projects. Infinium’s technological and commercial maturity, coupled with the company’s project development expertise, will help accelerate the clean-energy transition by quickly bringing to market clean fuels for aviation, trucking, and other long-distance parts of the transportation sector. American’s creativity, commitment and collaboration with Citi have set a new marker, demonstrating what it takes to usher in a climate-friendly aviation future.”


Jill Blickstein, American’s chief sustainability officer, said, “American joined Breakthrough Energy Catalyst because we saw the potential to accelerate the commercialization of the clean-energy technologies of the future. Today, we see the realization of that potential in Catalyst’s investment in Infinium’s electrofuels SAF, coupled with American’s long-term commitment to purchase those fuels. Our partnership with Catalyst—and our new commitment with Infinium—exemplifies the novel collaboration necessary to bring to market the new technologies that will allow us to decarbonize.”


Val Smith, Citi’s chief sustainability officer, said, “Citi is proud to work with Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, American Airlines and Infinium in this effort to support the commercialization of sustainable aviation fuel. Infinium’s eSAF technology is the latest example of innovation and growth in the climate-solutions space. We hope the offtake arrangement with American, where we combine their direct use of SAF with our indirect use through our business travel, will serve as one model for how offtake agreements can be used to help scale up future solutions for low-emissions air travel.”

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