10 -inch tracking The pipeline stretches south from Paulapolis International Airport, and after 13 miles, you will find yourself in a great potential center in the future for unsustainable fuel in the Midwest.
IN An agreement was published in SeptemberPine oil refinery owned by Koch Industries in Rosemount, Minnesota, will receive unsustainable fuel (SAF) manufactured using non -regenerated materials or waste. Pipes to the airport, where it will be used by Delta Airlines and other carriers.
Project proposals, including financial supporters Deloitte and Bank of America, said last year that up to 60 million blend -fuel gallons, capable of up to 50 % SAF, will flow in five years. 2025 and they are aimed at producing 1 billion Gallon SAF each year, will surpass the demand at Minneapolis Airport and turn HUB into a manufacturer for additional airports across the country and is likely the world. (There is no time frame for the refinery to achieve this greater goal.)
But this project and other people like it depend on financial support frames such as tax credit or loans prescribed under the typical climate law of 2022 of the Biden government, the inflation reduction law and existing. Can be taken away.
At the end of the month, Montana Renewables, one of the few US SAF manufacturers and suppliers according to the plan of the first phases for the Minnesota Center, paid that the $ 782 million loan of the Ministry's first dollars. Energy has been performed tactical delays to confirm the link with the White House's priorities. .
Scott Irwin, Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois, said that the federal incentives like this are the one who supports life, according to the Trump government, Scott Irwin, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Consumption at the University of Illinois said. According to Irwin, the Trump administration shows that they are willing to fully dismantle their laws of inflation and sponsorship, even if that means stroking the promise to farmers and businesses has begun to realize real reality. Currently, the smart climate work.
While state encouragement programs, along with low carbon fuel standards, still support SAF production, Irwin does not see anyone who can step in to replace the federal government in the credit stack if withdrawing money. There were no incentives in the law of inflation reduction, SAF died in the country, he said.
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Late last year Wired talked to Jake Reint, Vice President of Foreign Affairs about Flint Hills Resources, the company in Koch Industries owning Pine Bend and a number of other refineries, petrochemical plants and pipes . .
As planned, Pine Bend will reduce SAF loads manufactured in other places from trucks operated by Shell, distributors in arrangement, and then mix it with the current mixture of aircraft fuel. It. This will require Pine Bend to order a special pump that Reint said that they will not be delivered in a year and they cannot be ordered until the completion of the careful planning process, including the main estimates. Determine for short -term needs.