British Airways has announced that it is constructing a 19-million-gallon-per — year waste biomass gasification plant in East London, close to London City Airport and close to the Olympic Games facilities (www. biofueldigest. com/ bdigest/2010/02/15). This factory will produce renewable aviation biofuels from London’s waste and the plant will commence operations in 2015. It will utilize 500 000 tonnes of waste biomass to produce 50 000 tonnes of jet fuel. The facility will be constructed by the US Solena Group and will use the Fischer- Tropsch process. It will reduce the airline’s annual carbon emissions by 145 000 tonnes or 2% per year. Quantas also intends to build a commercial BTL, commercial-scale aviation biofuel plant with Solena. Thus, Solena becomes a very popular partner, because it produces biokerosene from waste and circum­vents all the problems with oils derived from plants, land clearance, and rising food prices.

202 | 19 Airline Jest Results with Biofuels

19.8