World Energy secures permit for Sustainable Aviation Fuel plant in Southern California
World Energy, a carbon-net-zero solutions provider, has secured the critical permits required to increase output by 700 percent at its Southern California renewable fuels production facility, the world's first and North America's only commercial-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production site.
The low-carbon fuels innovator, which has produced SAF at a commercial scale since 2016, is teaming up with Air Products and Honeywell to build the most technologically advanced production and distribution hub ever constructed. Together, along with more than 15 other leading firms, the companies are collaborating to speed up and expand the decarbonization of aviation.
The former oil refinery site will never again refine fossil fuels. By 2050 the facility will produce fuels that will displace over 76 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of 3.8 million carbon-net-zero flights from Los Angeles to New York. The facility was launched in Paramount, using Honeywell UOP's EcofiningTM technology in 2013, with production commencing in 2016.
