What Sets World Energy Apart?
For more than two decades, World Energy has been at the forefront of America’s biofuels industry. We led the way as the world’s first commercial-scale producer of sustainable aviation fuel, and we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has an important role to play in the future of aviation. A steady supply of SAF will help ensure the industry has the energy it needs to continue its upward trajectory. It will also enable companies to implement responsible business practices when it comes to air transport and cargo.
SAF can be made from many different agricultural inputs — often referred to as feedstocks — including waste fats, greases, and oils, renewable biomass, or food and yard waste.
SAF is a cleaner-burning fuel that reduces emissions by up to 85% over its life cycle and burns with almost no particulates, yielding cleaner air and a healthier environment for everyone. It also offers economic benefits by providing additional revenue streams for American farmers, creating jobs in local communities, and driving technological innovation.
However, not all SAF is the same. The way the SAF is produced, the feedstocks used to make it, and the way it’s transported all affect its environmental impact.
As a leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel, World Energy has pushed the boundaries of innovation and pushed our teams to continuously improve our processes and product. As a result, we are proud to say our SAF offers best-in-class carbon intensity.
Here’s how we do it.
We use only sustainable feedstocks. Our SAF is made from 100% inedible agricultural waste, fats, oils, and greases. We do not use crops like corn, soy, or palm oil, so our feedstocks don’t compete with food resources or contribute to deforestation. Plus, we choose feedstocks that can be transported to our facilities with the smallest possible impact on total emissions, and our suppliers also track and manage their own energy use and carbon emissions. This helps further minimize emissions involved in our SAF production.
Our SAF is not co-processed. Co-processed jet fuel includes only 5% of approved renewable feedstocks in addition to crude oil. While co-processing meets the jet fuel standards of ASTM, an organization that plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety, quality, and reliability of SAF, it isn’t subject to the same certification standards, so customers don’t know the actual amount of emissions reduction they’re purchasing. Co-processed SAF doesn’t match our environmental standards for neat (unblended) SAF and can’t come close to the emissions reductions our SAF delivers into the supply chain.
Companies that make co-processed jet fuel aren’t required to disclose their production methods. Nor do they have to certify their entire supply chain or verify how bio-based content is distributed among finished products.
We use an innovative market mechanism to ensure maximum impact. World Energy pioneered the Book & Claim chain-of-custody model to deliver SAF’s environmental benefits as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. This market innovation allows our customers to benefit from reductions in their Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions without having to physically use our fuel. It’s recognized as a credible and necessary approach to reach the aviation industry’s targets and scale the market for sustainable fuels.
Book & Claim greatly simplifies customers’ greenhouse gas emissions accounting and reporting with transparent and trackable data that quantifies the environmental benefits of our fuels. We can also integrate the performance of our products into reporting solutions and frameworks.
We’re always looking for ways to do better. We’re committed to lowering the environmental impact of our SAF by lowering our carbon intensity score. We do this by incorporating more renewable energy and innovative agricultural feedstocks into our refining process and exploring new and emerging technologies for SAF production. We also actively seek opportunities in our facilities and delivery processes to reduce the impact — and increase the environmental benefits — of our fuels over their life cycles.
Leading SAF into the future
Our efforts to achieve cleaner skies go beyond our own SAF production. We partner with other industry leaders to encourage effective domestic biofuel policies, secure more market investment in the sector, and promote energy innovation.
As we work toward our goal of supplying 500 million gallons of SAF every year, we’re motivated each day by our commitment to a clean environment, responsible business practices, and continued innovation. Contact us to learn why using sustainable aviation fuel from World Energy makes a world of difference.
