Moeve, easyJet reach 6-year SAF-supply agreement
Moeve announced Dec. 20 that it and easyJet have signed a memorandum of understanding to accelerate the decarbonization of air transport by promoting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), moving forward with a joint commitment to reduce the carbon footprint of air transport.
The agreement gives easyJet access to SAF for six years, from 2025 until 2030, on the airline’s route network in Spain.
Moeve produces SAF at its La Rábida Energy Park in Huelva, Spain, from used cooking oils.
Second-generation biofuels can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 90 percent throughout its entire lifecycle compared to traditional kerosene.
“At Moeve we promote solutions that drive decarbonization in the airline industry,” said Álvaro Macarro, Moeve’s director of sustainable aviation. “We believe that SAF is the immediate solution for a more sustainable aviation and therefore we supply it at the main airports of the Iberian Peninsula and the Canary Islands on a permanent basis. This new milestone reached with easyJet, a leading airline in Spain, is absolutely fundamental for our joint decarbonization journey with our clients.”
Raminder Shergill, easyJet’s director of tax and fuel strategy, added, “We are committed to decarbonizing our operations and SAF is going to play a vital role in helping us achieve that mission. We’re therefore delighted to have signed this agreement with Moeve to serve our Spanish network as we continue to take steps to reducing the impact of our flying.”
To ensure a supply of SAF to its clients, Moeve is building, together with its partners, a new plant with a flexible production capacity of 0.5 million metric tons of SAF and renewable diesel that will form part of the largest second-generation biofuels complex in southern Europe when it begins operation in 2026.
With this project, the company is making further progress towards its goal of becoming the top producer of second-generation biofuels in Spain and Portugal, with an annual production capacity of 2.5 million tons of biofuels by 2030, of which 800,000 tons will be from SAF, an amount sufficient for 2,000 flights around the planet.
The commitment from easyJet is another example of its backing of the SAF industry, one of the key components of its net-zero roadmap, and it complements other recent activities in this area.
Earlier this month, the airline, alongside its partner Airbus, launched a new business-travel solution that will explore corporate partnerships as a way to help finance SAF and drive down the green premium to make it more affordable.
And at the end of October, easyJet formally joined Project SkyPower, a CEO-led consortium aiming to accelerate the growth of the eSAF industry by helping unlock final-investment decisions for eSAF projects in Europe.
The agreement between Moeve and easyJet is in line with the European Commission’s Fit for 55 package, which includes a legislative initiative called RefuelEU aviation that aims to boost the supply and demand of aviation biofuels in the European Union, reaching 2 percent use by 2025, 6 percent by 2030, and 70 percent by 2050.
