As the aviation industry is also required to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, there is a growing movement toward the domestic production of SAF, an aircraft fuel made from waste cooking oil.
SAF can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 80% compared to conventional fuel, so the government has set a goal of replacing 10% of aircraft fuel with SAF by 2030.
Under these circumstances, Cosmo Oil, an oil wholesaler, and JGC, a major plant construction company, established new companies this month to manufacture SAF in Japan.
Production facilities will be installed at Cosmo Oil's Sakai Refinery in Osaka, and production is scheduled to start in fiscal 2024.
In addition, in order to stably secure raw materials, JGC is collaborating with Mitsubishi Estate, a major real estate company, to collect waste cooking oil from restaurants in buildings in Marunouchi, Tokyo.
In addition, ENEOS is collaborating with a French company to start manufacturing from waste cooking oil by 2025, and Idemitsu Kosan is aiming to start manufacturing from 2026 using plants as a raw material. is becoming active.
However, the production of SAF is said to cost two to ten times as much as conventional fuel, and the issue is how to reduce costs through efficient procurement of waste cooking oil.