Solena’s GreenSky California biomass-to-liquids facility in Northern California (Santa Clara County) will utilize post-recycled urban and agricultural wastes to produce up to 16 million gallons of neat jet fuel (as well as 14 million gallon equivalents of other energy products) per year by 2015 to support airline operations at Oakland, San Francisco and/or San Jose.
The project is expected to divert nearly 550,000 metric tons of waste that otherwise would go to a landfill while producing jet fuel with lower emissions of greenhouse gases and local pollutants than petroleum-based fuels.
American Airlines and United Continental Holdings led the development of the agreement with Solena and were joined by five additional ATA member airlines, and ATA associate member Air Canada in signing the letters of intent, as well as Frontier Airlines and Lufthansa German Airlines. .
The five additional ATA member airlines include Alaska Airlines, FedEx, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines and US Airways.
