Our member Greenlyte Carbon Technologies has signed a strategic innovation partnership with Lufthansa Group airline Eurowings, which will act as the exclusive offtaker for its LiquidSolar SAF plant at Düsseldorf Airport.
Under this agreement, Eurowings will exclusively purchase the entire production volume of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Greenlyte’s technological innovation in North Rhine-Westphalia, where atmospheric CO₂ and green hydrogen are converted into Power-to-Liquid (PtL) fuel.
As part of the partnership, Eurowings will also serve as the strategic partner for the project, in which Greenlyte will build a real-world demonstrator to produce e-SAF directly on airport grounds. Using solar energy from the airport, the project will demonstrate the end-to-end value chain from the air into the tank.
CEO and co-founder of Greenlyte, Florian Hildebrand, commented, “We are proud to have found two pioneering partners in North Rhine-Westphalia in Eurowings and the airport, who believe in the potential of our technology for climate-neutral flying. With this project, we are taking the next big step: showing that eSAF can be produced cost-effectively and scalably. The project fits seamlessly into our project portfolio and underlines that defossilisation cannot be achieved through innovation alone, but through bold partnerships.”
Greenlyte is one of the leading European energy start-ups, reshaping the global energy landscape with its fully electric patent-protected LiquidSolar™ system. With a projected production capacity of around 150 tonnes of SAF annually, our member intends to complete SAF real-world laboratory at Düsseldorf Airport by 2028.
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