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    Bombardier to use Sustainable Aviation Fuel across flight operations beginning January

    Oct. 19, 2022
    The decision to use SAF in its flight operations will result in an approximate 25% reduction in annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the business jet manufacturer predicted
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    Business jet manufacturer Bombardier has signed a multi-year agreement with Signature Aviation to buy sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

    Bombardier conducts several flight operations as part of its regular activities, including production testing and certification flights in Canada and customer demonstration flights in Hartford, Connecticut. The firm also conducts after-service check flights at its service centers.

    The decision to use SAF in its flight operations will result in an approximate 25% reduction in annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This will contribute to Bombardier’s objective of reducing GHG emissions from its operations by 25% by 2025 from the baseline year 2019.

    “Signature Renew’s Book & Claim program is business aviation’s most pragmatic approach to making the lowest overall carbon intensity SAF quickly and easily accessible,” explained Tony Lefebvre, Chief Executive Officer for Signature Aviation. “Over the last two years, Signature has grown our SAF supply points to 17 global airports, or around 10% of our total network of private aviation terminals. But until we reach the milestone of SAF at every one of our terminals’ fuel farms, Book & Claim gives critical coverage to gaps in supply while immediately taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Bombardier’s implementation of its ambitious sustainability plans demonstrates how any fleet operator, big or small, can tackle the challenge of their aircraft’s emissions through bulk carbon reductions, created right here in business aviation.”

    The fuel purchase deal is under the Book and Claim system, covering Bombardier’s flight operations from January 2023. Under the Book and Claim system, a user situated near the SAF production site uses the fuel in its flights.

    The GHG emissions reduction related to this use is claimed, in exchange for the additional cost of SAF by another user situated at a site farther away from a production facility.

    Several of Bombardier’s flight operations are situated in locations where SAF is not produced nearby and so the Book and Claim system is the most effective method to limit the negative impact of fuel transportation.

    The SAF is evaluated for average lifecycle Carbon Intensity, including emissions right from obtaining feedstock to bringing it to market. 

    About the Author

    EnergyTech Staff

    Rod Walton is senior editor for EnergyTech.com. He has spent 14 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist.

    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    He can be reached at [email protected]. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids.

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