California Gov. Newsom Visits World Energy’s Renewable Diesel, SAF Plant near Los Angeles
by Ron Kotrba (Biobased Diesel Daily) California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited World Energy’s Paramount, California, renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility May 1 to spotlight California’s transition to clean fuels and broader commitment to green jobs.
The World Energy site is a converted a petroleum refinery that became the world’s first producer of SAF. The company is significantly expanding SAF production capacity at the facility.
The complex is also being outfitted to manufacture green hydrogen. Hydrogen is needed to hydrotreat biobased feedstock into renewable diesel and SAF.
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Gene Gebolys, founder and CEO of World Energy, told Biobased Diesel Daily, “Upon completion, the World Energy LA Clean Fuel Hub will produce clean hydrogen from fully renewable off gases—and that hydrogen will be used to produce the world’s lowest-carbon SAF and road fuels and, in addition, directly fuel about 2,000 zero-emission fuel-cell trucks per day. California, the world’s fifth-largest economy, is the also world’s unparalleled leader in driving innovation and has long supported the pioneering work World Energy does in Paramount. Gov. Newsom’s over two-hour visit, and deep engagement while he was with us, was an important validation of the importance of that work for California—and well beyond.”
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Additionally, the governor marked International Workers’ Day while at World Energy and met with hundreds of union construction workers who are building the next phase of the facility.
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The LCFS has dramatically reshaped California’s fuels market over the past decade, reducing the carbon intensity of fuels in the state by 10 percent and more than doubling the use of cleaner fuels, displacing over 24 billion gallons of petroleum fuel.
Last year, the governor requested that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) consider a more stringent fuel standard and accelerate refinery transitions to clean-fuels production.
Additionally, Newsom directed CARB to establish a 20 percent clean-fuels target for the aviation sector.
Meanwhile, Newsom chose not to sign AB 1322, a bill passed by the Legislature in August that would, among other provisions, target 20 percent SAF consumption in California aviation by 2030.
World Energy has received millions of dollars in grants from the state to support its clean-energy projects, and is one of hundreds of companies that have received state funding. READ MORE
World Energy, World Fuel Services extend partnership with 6-year, 27-million-gallon SAF agreement (Biobased Diesel Daily/World Energy)
Excerpt from Biobased Diesel Daily/World Energy: Biodiesel, renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producer World Energy announced May 11 a six-year agreement with the global energy-management company World Fuel Services for up to 27 million gallons of neat, unblended SAF.
The new contract has the potential to reduce over 200,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions from air travel, equivalent to the greenhouse-gas emissions from electricity used to power nearly 40,000 homes.
“This long-term commitment from World Fuel Services shows confidence not only in the best-in-class carbon intensity of our fuels but in the strength of the sustainable aviation fuel industry as a whole,” said World Energy CEO Gene Gebolys. “Our continued partnership with World Fuel Services promises to deliver sustainable fuels at the scale necessary to meet customers’ ambitious emissions-reduction targets and help them decarbonize their operations.”
World Energy controls its entire process from start to finish and is one of the only SAF producers that manufactures its product entirely in the United States.
Its Paramount, California, facility uses renewable feedstocks—including agricultural waste, fats, and oils—to produce neat SAF certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, reducing emissions by 84 percent compared to the same volume of traditional jet fuel.
World Energy stated that it is the only company producing RSB-certified SAF.
“We have been collaborating with World Energy since 2016, and this new agreement demonstrates the strength of our joint commitment to decarbonization,” said Brad Hurwitz, senior vice president of supply and trading at World Fuel Services. “Our work together has enabled not only the significant expansion of World Energy’s Paramount refinery but also advances a greener future for the aviation industry by significantly increasing the immediate availability of SAF across World Fuel’s extensive network of FBO, business and commercial aviation customers.”
Since 2016, World Energy and World Fuel Services have worked closely together to provide both SAF supply and logistics for major carriers like United Airlines, KLM and JetBlue.
Founded in 1998, World Energy has been commercializing, producing and distributing low-carbon fuels for more than two decades. READ MORE
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