IAG and Repsol concord the maximal acquire of SAF in Espana – Information Today Web

MADRID – International Airlines Group (IAG) has reached an commendation with the multi-energy consort Repsol for the acquire and cater during the incoming sextet months of more than 28,000 tonnes of sustainable travel render (SAF). The SAF provided by Repsol module be utilised by the IAG airlines expose from land airports, including Aer Lingus, nation Airways, Iberia, peninsula Express and Vueling.

This commendation represents the maximal intentional acquire of SAF prefabricated to fellow in Spain. With this cater IAG advances in its dedication to the decarbonisation of its activity, effort the Group fireman to the ingest of 2% of SAF in 2025 as ingrained by the ReFuel EU regulation. SAF allows an emissions change of more than 80% compared to tralatitious plane render in cost of gain dioxide chronicle wheel emissions, from creation to consumption. IAG, as with every its SAF purchases, ensures that the SAF purchased complies with demanding sustainability authorisation standards.

This assemblage Repsol has begun to display 100% renewable fuels at its facilities in Cartagena. The plant, the prototypal large-scale existence in Espana and Portugal sacred only to the creation of 100% renewable fuels and in which Repsol has endowed 250 meg euros, has a creation power of 250,000 heaps per assemblage and crapper display renewable diesel and SAF from waste.

Luis Gallego, CEO of IAG, said that: “Sustainability is a antecedency for IAG and is digit of the pillars on which we humble our strategy and transformation. We are employed intensely to bonded our forthcoming SAF needs and obey with our commitments, which are more enterprising than what is ingrained by EU legislation. However, it is essential that governments move to hold the utilization of a SAF playing that increases its availability and reduces its price. Developing a dweller SAF playing has the possibleness to create thousands of jobs and module attain an essential effort to GDP.”

Josu Jon Ima, CEO of Repsol, said that: “This commendation with IAG, digit of the maximal line groups in the world, consolidates our dedication to 100% renewable fuels as a key tumbler for the decarbonization of instrumentation in Spain. The travel facet needs solutions much as sustainable travel fuels and, at Repsol, we are embattled to cater them finished our 100% renewable fuels existence in Cartagena.”

IAG a directive sustainability assemble in the travel industry

IAG was the prototypal line assemble in the concern to send to gain ordered emissions by 2050. In addition, it was the prototypal dweller assemble to ordered the content of concealment its render needs with at small 10% of SAF by 2030.

These commitments hit materialized in neutral actions. As of 31 Dec 2023, IAG’s investments in SAF reached $1 billion, of which 86% are forthcoming commitments. As of the modify of February, IAG has already secured a ordinal of the SAF required to foregather the neutral of 10% of its render existence SAF in 2030.

In 2023, the group’s airlines utilised more than 53,000 tonnes of SAF, which was an process of 417% compared to 2022 and represented digit of the maximal volumes in the world. The ingest of this SAF low gain emissions of more than 157,000 heaps of CO2. This emissions change was complemented with effective efficiency initiatives that prefabricated it doable to refrain added 86,000 heaps of CO2.

 IAG and Repsol: pioneers in the decarbonisation of land aviation

IAG’s airlines in Espana and Repsol hit been collaborating on the decarbonisation of expose instrumentation for individual years.

In 2021, peninsula carried discover the prototypal grace in Espana with biofuel produced from waste. It was on the line between Madrid and Bilbao and sustainable render produced at the Petronor refinery was used. A assemblage later, peninsula operated, in cooperation with Repsol, its prototypal long-haul flights with this biofuel in routes from Madrid to Washington, San Francisco and Dallas. Both companies are conception of All4Zero, the industrial-oriented subject conception hub convergent on the utilization of technologies for decarbonisation and the broadside economy.

Also, in 2021, Vueling carried discover its prototypal grace with render of sustainable lineage on the line between metropolis and Seville. In this case, with a SAF produced from biomass at Repsol’s Tarragona Industrial facilities. Last February, in the environment of metropolis Film Festival, Vueling operated a grace between metropolis and metropolis in which 50% of the render utilised was SAF provided by Repsol.

Repsol is a originator in Espana in the creation of renewable fuels for every instrumentation means, including aviation. With the creation of this identify of render in its industrialized facilities, Repsol has expected the conception from dweller Union ingrained to encourage the ingest of SAF.

The neutral of the multi-energy consort is to accomplish a creation power of up to 1.7 meg heaps of renewable fuels in 2027 and up to 2.7 meg in 2030, directive this mart in the peninsula Peninsula.