CleanJoule

Thanks so much to SAF Investor and Oscar Henderson for having our CEO Mukund Karanjikar on the podcast last week. In the run up to Farnborough, and a week of catching up in-person with our industry colleagues, it's important to talk in-depth about feedstock variances and availability, Carbon Intensity scores, and real timeline to producing full-performance SAF at scale. Our industry - and the environment - depend on it. Take a listen anywhere you access podcasts and feel free to reach out with any questions. #SAF #sustainability #decarbonization #aviation #FIA2024

The efforts by Wizz Air to support the #Sustainable #Aviation Fuel market are always inspiring. From trialing SAF in Europe to investing in companies like ours, we love to see airlines truly "walking the walk." Their latest initiative is to better understand their community's opinions and awareness when it comes to #SAF. Please help them - and us - by completing the quick survey - linked below.

When people seek out information on the leading OEMs in the #aviation industry as well as the important happenings across suppliers, executives, promising new companies, technologies, and more they turn to Leeham Co LLC and Scott Hamilton. It was an honor for our CEO, Mukund Karanjikar to sit down with Scott recently and get him up to speed on CleanJoule including the latest exciting progress at our pilot manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City, #Utah. We can't wait to soon be producing greater volumes of sustainable aviation fuel to meet the industry's massive and urgent need ?? #SAF #aerospace

This week, the Expanding Clean Fuel Production Act was introduced to create a 10 year extension for the Section 45Z clean fuel production credit. This is great to see - for our industry as a whole - as the extension will likely also include enhancements as well! As Allison Graab, Executive Director of The SAF Coalition said, "Advancing sustainable aviation fuel demonstrates a clear commitment to the environmental and economic promises SAF holds, and incentives that are durable and attract investment are essential to unlocking that potential and driving the progress needed to sustain and grow the SAF industry." #SAF #aviation #aerospace #cleantech

The "SAF blend wall" is a real limitation for existing SAF providers. Today, SAF can be - at its maximum - 50% blended with Jet A before being put into aircraft fuel tanks. That's a requirement due to the lower density outputs of currently available SAF production pathways. At CleanJoule, our production pathway enables us to break the SAF blend wall. Read more from Wendy Dulaney at Fastmarkets, who sat down with our CEO Mukund Karanjikar to discuss how the future of #aviation must be 100% #sustainable, and how that's uniquely possible with CycloSAF, our product that delivers 10% greater energy density than Jet A. The math just works, and we're excited to bring about a clear path to net-zero aviation. #SAF #SustainableAviationFuel #AviationDecarbonization

Earlier this year, our CEO Mukund Karanjikar attended Farnborough International with thousands of aerospace industry peers. While there, he was able to meet with Iain Wilson of BloombergNEF and discuss the unique origin story of CleanJoule and the process behind our CycloSAF product. As CycloSAF moves through the ASTM International qualification process, BNEF published a deep-dive Q&A with Mukund a few weeks back. One question focused on Mukund's sentiment around the #aviation industry meeting its 2050 goals: "I am inherently optimistic. The answer [to decarbonizing aviation] is #energy dense liquid #hydrocarbons that are sustainably produced. The other option is: don't do anything #sustainable, which is not on the table anymore. If you want a growing and sustainable aviation industry long into the future, then #SAF is your only solution, and SAF doesn't come in the same colors and flavors everywhere. There are multiple process pathways, there are multiple companies, and there are a lot of large corporations that have made investments in production pathways. Many will succeed because the demand for fuel as air travel continues to grow is meaningful. 2050 will not happen in a vacuum. We're not going to fall asleep and wake up in 2050 with a decarbonized aviation industry. A lot of effort, a lot of commitment from all factions from the entire industrial establishment - the governments around the world - all will need to play a key and pivotal role in enabling the 2050 vision."

It was great for Air Cargo Week to sit down with our CEO Mukund Karanjikar and learn more about CleanJoule and our CycloSAF product. As Mukund put it, "only eight SAF pathways have the permission to sell their SAF at scale. Yet even with that permission, the companies tapping those pre-approved pathways don’t inherently have the ability to sell at scale. At CleanJoule, we are working to certify a ninth, superior SAF pathway while simultaneously building out our manufacturing plants such that when we have permission to sell, we also are ready to sell and deliver CycloSAF industry-wide." This is indeed a new route to net zero! ?? #SAF #sustainability #aviation

A few weeks ago our CEO Mukund Karanjikar attended #climateweek in New York City where he spoke with our GenZero partners at the Climate Leaders Assembly co-hosted by Bain & Company and National Climate Change Secretariat, Singapore. While all eyes were on New York City, some of the biggest news in #SAF was happening elsewhere: At #IATAWSS in Miami, International Air Transport Association (IATA) unveiled its Finance Roadmap (below) which provides estimates for the energy transition costs that the industry will likely face, and the capital required to build the number of biorefineries needed to produce enough SAF to reach net zero CO2 emissions by 2050. Meanwhile in Washington D.C. the Senate announced the formation of the bipartisan SAF Caucus. We hope this leads to a Manhattan Project-scale effort eliminating the country's dependence on fossil fuels for #aviation while growing domestic #manufacturing of SAF, which will both enhance our national security and create millions of high paying rural jobs. One thing's for sure, it's going to take a tremendous effort - and investment - in the years and decades to come to achieve the Paris Agreement targets, and SAF is the key to transportation's meaningful contribution to a successful global #energy transition. #biofuels #energytransition #parisagreement #aerospace

Last week our CEO Mukund Karanjikar chatted with Aviation Week Network's Graham Warwick to provide an update on CycloSAF. Our pathway for creating CycloSAF at scale is now in ASTM International's qualification process and we couldn't be more excited to share this news! Our unique pathway is far simpler (two-steps) and more cost - and carbon - efficient than any other pathway. With abundant feedstock and the support of our international consortium of investors, we're looking forward to meaningfully reducing aerospace emissions. #climateweek #SAF #aviation #aerospace

Our CEO?Mukund Karanjikar joined the?Category Visionaries?podcast recently to discuss?#SAF as a critical component in?reducing the carbon impact of the #aviation industry. Thank you Brett Stapper?for the opportunity to highlight CleanJoule's innovative technology and how we're rapidly accelerating the production of SAF and making a meaningful impact on this hard-to-abate sector. You can listen to the full podcast here on Spotify:? https://lnkd.in/dsbfzUKX