新加坡：新加坡航空（SIA）周三（10月28日）宣布，将购买由废气制成的可持续航空燃料，作为其到2050年实现碳净零排放努力的一部分。
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced on Wednesday (Oct 28) that it will buy sustainable aviation fuel made from waste gases as part of its efforts to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
该航空公司表示，已与Aether Beacon签署协议，在三年内采购多达4800吨新一代可持续航空燃料。
The airline said it signed an agreement to purchase up to 4,800 tonnes of next-generation sustainable aviation fuel from Aether Beacon over three years.
新加坡航空与Aether Fuels周三在联合媒体声明中表示，交付将于2028年开始。
The deliveries will commence in 2028, said SIA and Aether Fuels in a joint media release on Wednesday.
该燃料将利用新技术生产，将生物甲烷和工业废气等废弃碳原料转化为航空燃料。
The fuel will be produced using new technology that converts waste carbon feedstocks, such as biomethane and industrial waste gases, into aviation fuel.
新加坡航空与Aether Fuels表示：“这为氢化酯和脂肪酸路径提供了一种替代方案，后者依赖供应更受限的脂质基原料。”
“This offers an alternative to the hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids pathway, which relies on more constrained lipid-based feedstocks,” said SIA and Aether Fuels.
Aether Fuels曾于11月表示，与传统航空煤油相比，这种生产方法可减少70%以上的温室气体排放。
Aether Fuels had said in November that this production method reduces greenhouse gas emissions by more than 70 per cent compared to conventional jet fuel.
该燃料将在“灯塔项目”生产，这是Aether Fuels正在武吉欧姆岛开发的商业生产设施。新加坡航空是首家从该设施采购可持续航空燃料的航空公司，这也标志着其首次采购采用此类技术生产的可持续航空燃料。
The fuel will be produced at Project Beacon, Aether Fuels' commercial production facility which is being developed in Pulau Bukom. SIA is the first airline to buy sustainable aviation fuel from the facility and this marks its first purchase of sustainable aviation fuel made with such technology as well.
新加坡航空首席可持续发展官李雯芬表示：“支持可持续航空燃料（SAF）的开发与应用，并确保未来供应，是新加坡航空到2050年实现碳净零排放雄心不可或缺的一部分。”
“Supporting the development and adoption of SAF (sustainable aviation fuel), and securing future supplies, are integral to SIA’s ambition of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050,” said SIA chief sustainability officer Lee Wen Fen.
她补充说，此次采购展示了新加坡对新型低碳燃料生产路径的需求。
She added that the purchase demonstrated demand for new lower-carbon fuel production pathways in Singapore.
她说：“我们将继续与全球合作伙伴合作，扩大可持续航空燃料（SAF）产量，强化航空业的可持续发展生态系统，并支持向更可持续的航空出行转型。”
“We will continue to work with partners globally to scale SAF (sustainable aviation fuel) production, strengthen the aviation industry’s sustainability ecosystem, and support the transition to more sustainable air travel,” she said.
Aether Fuels与能源及化工解决方案提供商Aster于去年11月宣布了建设“灯塔项目”的计划。
Plans to build Project Beacon were announced by Aether Fuels and energy and chemical solutions provider Aster in November last year.
当时，两家公司表示，该设施每年将生产多达2000吨燃料，商业运营将于2028年开始。
The companies said then that the facility would produce up to 2,000 tons of fuel per year, with commercial operations beginning in 2028.
周三，新航和Aether Fuels表示，后者计划于2031年前启动其首座大型商业工厂，产能至少是Beacon的10倍。
On Wednesday, SIA and Aether Fuels said the latter intended to start up its first large-scale commercial plant by 2031, with a production capacity at least 10 times greater than Beacon.
Aether Fuels首席执行官兼联合创始人Conor Madigan指出，新加坡已被其公司选为首座商业设施的选址。
Aether Fuels CEO and co-founder Conor Madigan noted that Singapore had been chosen by his company as the site of its first commercial facility.
他说，新加坡正通过炼油和航空基础设施、投资支持、可持续发展政策，以及利用其全球航空枢纽的地位，构建一个强大的航空脱碳生态系统。
The country is building a strong ecosystem for aviation decarbonisation through refining and aviation infrastructure, investment support, sustainability policies and utilising its position as a global aviation hub, he said.
他说：“这项具有约束力的协议（与新航签署）是一个重要的下一步，也是来自一家领先全球航空公司的坚定需求的强烈信号——这正是将新的可持续航空燃料（SAF）路径推向规模化所需的合作类型。”
“This binding agreement (with SIA) is an important next step and a strong signal of committed demand from a leading global airline – exactly the type of collaboration needed to create the commercial conditions to bring new SAF (sustainable aviation fuel) pathways to scale,” he said.
新航及其廉价子公司酷航的目标是到2030年，使用可持续航空燃料占其总燃料需求的5%。根据新航网站，该目标视全球此类燃料的供应和采用情况而定。
SIA and its budget subsidiary Scoot are targeting using sustainable aviation fuel for 5 per cent of their total fuel requirements by 2030. The goal is subject to global developments on the availability and adoption of such fuel, according to SIA's website.
2024年，两家航空公司表示将购买由Neste在新加坡生产的1000吨可持续航空燃料。
In 2024, both airlines said they would purchase 1,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel produced by Neste in Singapore.