Carbon Neutral Fuels, io consulting and Mission Zero Technologies Announce £1.4m DfT Advanced Fuels Fund Award

Carbon Neutral Fuels (“CNF”), a developer of green alternative fuels, announced on 17th November 2023 that their consortium comprising io consulting (energy) UK LLP (“io”) acting as engineering partner, and Mission Zero Technologies Ltd acting as Direct Air Capture partner, has been awarded £1.38m from Window 2 of the UK Department for Transport (DfT) Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) competition for their “Advancing Sustainable Aviation via Power-to-Liquid and Direct Air Capture” (ASAP-DAC) project.

The ASAP-DAC project will conduct feasibility studies through Front End Engineering Design for a UK-based Power-to-Liquid e-fuels demonstration facility capable of producing 750,000 litres/year of Jet A-1 compatible Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), to support the DfT’s objective of developing innovative fuel production technologies capable of significantly reducing near-term UK aviation emissions.

io consulting will conduct the Feasibility, pre-FEED and FEED studies. In response to the award, Richard Dyson, io’s CEO, stated:

Mission Zero Technologies will collaborate on the integration of their innovative Direct Air Capture technology. Nicholas Chadwick, CEO of Mission Zero Technologies, stated:

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The competition for Window 2 of the DfT’s Advanced Fuels Fund ran from 30th March 2023 through 7th June, with £55.8 million being made available for eligible projects out of a total available allocation of £165 million, providing grant funding to first-of-a-kind (FOAK) commercial and demonstration-scale SAF projects in the UK at all development stages up to construction starting.