Feasibility study on the use of sustainable aviation fuels

This feasibility study assesses the potential for developing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in India to reduce aviation-related greenhouse gas emissions and generate socio-economic benefits. Aligned with ICAO’s ACTSAF Template and Guide for Feasibility Studies on SAF, this assessment evaluates India’s domestic feedstock potential, viable production pathways, infrastructure and policy readiness, and the enabling conditions needed to establish a domestic SAF market. It draws on international best practices, adapted to India’s socioeconomic and environmental context.

KEY FINDINGS
The Indian government and other stakeholders are committed to the development of a domestic SAF industry. The government has set targets of a 1% SAF blend by 2027, 2% by 2028, and 5% by 2030. Numerous stakeholders are actively involved in the development of a SAF sector, including petroleum refiners, SAF technology developers, feedstock suppliers, airlines, original equipment manufacturers, etc. The first volumes of SAF are expected to be produced in the latter half of 2025 through coprocessing of UCO in an existing refinery.

This study carried out a comprehensive assessment of feedstocks available in India and potential SAF
technologies that could utilize them. India has vast resources of bio-based feedstocks that could potentially be used to produce SAF, with sugarcane bagasse, rice straw, and municipal solid waste forming the bulk of the biogenic feedstocks.

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