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    Microsoft Invests in LanzaJet to Support Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production at a Higher Capacity

    April 24, 2024
    Additionally, Microsoft explore how providing its data and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities can improve LanzaJet's corporate functions and ethanol to Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) process technology
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    LanzaJet, a sustainable fuels technology company and sustainable fuels producer, has announced an investment from Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund to continue building its capability and capacity to deploy its sustainable fuels process technology globally. 

    Additionally, Microsoft will explore how providing its data and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities can improve LanzaJet's corporate functions and ethanol to Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) process technology.

    The investment in LanzaJet follows a $50 million project finance investment from Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund in 2022 to support the construction of LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels in Soperton, Georgia - an ethanol to SAF production plant, which opened in January 2024. 

    LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels will begin the annual production of 10 million gallons of SAF and renewable diesel in Q2 2024.

    "Our continued alignment with Microsoft allows LanzaJet to build our team and capability at pace to support the global deployment of our leading sustainable fuels process technology," said Jimmy Samartzis, LanzaJet CEO. "Through its support of LanzaJet's first-of-a-kind ethanol to SAF biorefinery, LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels, Microsoft has played a significant role in making SAF production a reality in the United States, and this investment reemphasizes its urgent commitment to decarbonization of hard-to-abate sectors."

    The investment will not only help Microsoft utilize sustainable fuels, SAF, renewable diesel, and SAF Certificates from future LanzaJet projects but also help Microsoft on its journey to become carbon-negative by 2030.

    LanzaJet's portfolio of investors and funders also includes All Nippon Airways, Breakthrough Energy, British Airways, LanzaTech, Mitsui & Co., Shell, Southwest Airlines, and Suncor Energy.

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    Rod Walton is senior editor for EnergyTech.com. He has spent 14 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist.

    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    He can be reached at [email protected]. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids.

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.