From the historical passage of climate change legislation in the U.S. to launching New York City’s first Vehicle-to-Grid initiative, to enjoying the great outdoors of Northeastern Ohio at the Levis Commons Fine Art Fair and celebrating National Thrift Store day, it was another busy week telling our client’s stories. Here are a few media clips from the past week.
With COP26 in Glasgow to two product launches in Switzerland and Sweden, it has been another busy week. We are also preparing locally for the final art fair of the season in Michigan and Ford Motor Company announced its collaboration with Fermata Energy and New Lab. From Bloomberg to Emirate Business, here is a sample of the media from this week.
Vattenfall, SAS, Shell and LanzaTech will together investigate the production of the world’s first synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the LanzaJetTM “Alcohol to Jet” technology on a large scale in Sweden. Instead of using virgin fossil material in the production process, the synthetic SAF will be produced from fossil free electricity and recycled carbon dioxide from district heating.
As the aviation industry calls for the transition to sustainable aviation fuel, more resources will be needed domestically to produce it. US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and US Senator Jon Ossoff toured LanzaTech's Freedom Pines Biorefinery in Soperton, Georgia, last week to highlight the investments the US government is making to achieving the President's climate policy while bolstering American infrastructure, creating jobs in rural America, and leveraging waste gases to produce fuel while keeping carbon underground.
The White House set a goal of replacing all jet fuel with sustainable alternatives by 2050, saying it could cut emissions from flying by 20 percent by the end of the decade. To help meet that goal, the Department of Energy (DOE), announced more than $64 million in funding for 22 projects focused on developing technologies and processes that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels as part of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge.
It continues to be a busy week with our clients with two major events this weekend including UNESCO’s Detroit’s Month of Design and the Common Ground Birmingham Street Art Fair, benefiting Common Ground and their mission of bringing people from crises to hope. You can learn more about UNESCO’s Detroit’s Month of Design by watching this great story by Hilary Golston from FOX 2 News in Detroit. We also worked with Carey Biron at Reuters to focus on how LanzaTech is turning pollution into products we are using every day and with Liz Morrison from GreenBiz who wrote an amazing story to help all better understand electric vehicles and what companies and government can do to make them more affordable.
Despite the holiday weekend, it was a busy week for our clients. Executives from LanzaTech and LanzaJet participated in a (virtual) roundtable discussion on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at The White House, where President Joe Biden announced his Administration's plans to reduce aviation emissions by 20% by 2030. Both LanzaTech and LanzaJet received funding from the US Department of Energy to domestically produce SAF at their plant in Soperton, GA. This week and on behalf of Fermata Energy, we announced a new partnership with electric-mobility company Revel and clean energy developer NineDot Energy to install Fermata Energy Energy V2X systems to begin powering Revel’s Superhub in Brooklyn. We also worked to let local media in Detroit know about a special art exhibition at The Scarab Club made by artists with developmental disabilities through STEPs PASC. It is part of Detroit City of Design and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). And we worked to inform the community about next week’s Common Ground Birmingham Street Art Fair where there will be an art auction benefiting Common Ground’s mission helping people move from crisis to hope.
Another week comes to an end and with the help of our partners and journalists, we were able to share our client’s stories by making them relevant to the news cycle and to news that people find valuable. Here is just a sample of news we generated this week in publications from New Zealand to Spain and back to the United States.
LanzaJet Alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) technology will be deployed as part of three projects in the United Kingdom (UK), focused on the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to reduce emissions from the aviation sector in the UK within the near term. · LanzaJet, along with British Airways and Nova Pangaea Technologies, was shortlisted for a grant from the UK's Department for Transport Green Fuels, Green Skies competition for Project Speedbird, to develop the first SAF production facility in the UK, converting wood waste to sustainable aviation fuel.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is fundamental to aviation’s progress towards net-zero emissions, and looking forward, LanzaJet’s technology provides a ready, scalable, and unique solution that focuses on SAF production today and for tomorrow. Shell’s investment further enables LanzaJet’s global growth and aligns with Shell’s strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, in step with society, providing customers with more and cleaner energy solutions.
LanzaJet Appoints Sir David King, Global Climate Change and Science Leader, to Its Board of Directors, Further Advancing its Focus to Address the Urgent Needs in Decarbonizing Aviation through Sustainable Aviation Fuels
