British Airways is among the investors in a $200 million plant that will make sustainable aviation fuel from ethanol derived from corn. The plant officially opened in rural Georgia last week and will produce about 10 million gallons of jet fuel and diesel. As electric cars and trucks displace gasoline-powered vehicles there will be massive excess capacity in ethanol plants that now supply an average of 10 percent of the volume of pump gasoline. It's relatively straightforward to convert the alcohol to diesel and SAF, and the notion has also attracted investment from Suncor, a Canadian oil sands petroleum producer.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/new-plant-converts-ethanol-to-saf