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SAF’s promising, yet uncertain future

A biodiesel expert says the industry faces a promising, yet uncertain future in 2025.

Eric Lawson with MEG Corp says a major headwind continues to be a lack of guidance on 45Z tax credits for sustainable aviation fuel production.

“One of the biggest things in making sustainable aviation fuel go is to be able to produce it in mass and to produce it where it’s still reasonably priced for the airlines to buy it,” he says.

He tells Brownfield there’s also uncertainty with the incoming Trump administration and where it stands on biodiesels.

“We were in this industry the last time this administration was here and there was a few speed bumps, but all in all, I think the last four years of this incoming administration still proved that the industry grew,” he says.

Lawson says he expects global demand for biodiesels will continue to grow.

There’s lots of fleets, whether it’s your large retailers of the world that are trying to lower their carbon score footprint, which they’re in turn putting on their transportation companies, or just the whole shipping process sustainability goals to get to net zero within their operation,” he says.

Brownfield interviewed Lawson at the 2024 Nebraska Ag Expo in Lincoln, Nebraska.

AUDIO: Eric Lawson, MEG Corp