£2bn Teesside green jet fuel plant poised for take-off

The Lighthouse Inexperienced Fuels improvement on the North Tees industrial cluster will flip 1.5m tonnes of waste biomass into as much as 180m litres of sustainable jet gas a yr – sufficient to energy 25,000 short-haul or 2,500 long-haul flights.

Greater than 2,000 jobs shall be created throughout building.

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen secured the pledge in Riyadh this week throughout conferences with senior Alfanar executives, together with vice-chairman Sabah Al Multaq, as he promoted the Teesside Freeport to international buyers.

Houchen stated: “It’s excellent information that Alfanar has dedicated to delivering this challenge on Teesside.

“Developments corresponding to Lighthouse Inexperienced Fuels put our area on the forefront of a rising business which is primed for enormous growth.”

The ability can even plug into the Northern Endurance Partnership’s carbon seize and storage community being developed off Teesside’s coast, avoiding over 750,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions a yr.

Backed by £40m of presidency funding from the Division for Transport’s Superior Fuels Fund, the plant is considered one of a number of schemes placing Teesside on the map because the UK’s capital for low-carbon aviation fuels.