Who we are

Our Story

We are committed leaders from across the aviation value chain in Europe, working to make e-SAF a commercial reality this decade

As CEOs, we are coming together to break down the barriers facing e-SAF in Europe, and accelerate progress towards scaling this innovative fuel. With representation from across the e-SAF ecosystem, we will leverage our diverse and deep expertise to collectively and collaboratively overcome the challenges faced by e-SAF and will unify our voice to send a clear message to the whole aviation ecosystem that these fuels are vitally important for our industry’s fight to reach our emissions reductions targets.

Project SkyPower is an action-oriented initiative. With ambitious plans set within tight timelines, our primary focus is on concrete action and swift generation of valuable insights that can deliver our goals.

Transparency is crucial to us which is why we have made our first insights report publicly available. If you're interested in learning more about our initiative, please get in touch via the contact form.

15

CEOs

leading Project SkyPower from organisations across the e-SAF ecosystem
6

value chain stages

represented including e-SAF producers, offtakers, airports, technology providers, EPC providers, and investors
240

thousand tonnes

of planned e-SAF capacity represented by our membership

Who's on board

15 CEOs from across the aviation and energy value chains

Marjan Rintel, CEO (Co-Chair)

KLM (on behalf of Air France-KLM)

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For 105 years, continuous improvement and innovation has been part of KLM’s DNA. Now the aviation industry faces one of its biggest challenges: reducing our impact on the planet. Alternative aviation fuels - yielding lower carbon emissions from production to use compared to fossil fuel - will be one of the levers to tackle this challenge. We have already been co-operating with parties to research and stimulate the development of various technologies, of which synthetic fuel (e-SAF) is expected to be the most promising in terms of feedstock availability and cost perspective. I am honoured to be the co-Chair of Project SkyPower, which brings together European leaders from across the aviation value chain to scale up production of e-SAF. It will be challenging, however I am convinced that together we can make this a reality.
Amy Hebert, CEO (Co-Chair)

Arcadia eFuels

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e-SAF enables a path to net-zero carbon emission flying, and we want to unlock the power of this innovative and future fuel to become a reality this decade. Arcadia eFuels is proud to be at the forefront of e-SAF project development and production. We have commercial-scale production facilities in our site pipeline across Europe, with Project Endor in Denmark leading the way. I am proud to co-chair Project SkyPower, and I encourage other aviation leaders to join this collaborative alliance to enable e-SAF projects to reach financial close in the coming years.
Anko van der Werff, President and CEO

SAS

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SAS has been connecting people and cultures across Scandinavia and beyond for many years. True to our Scandinavian heritage we have been at the forefront of our industry’s drive toward greater sustainability, and we understand that achieving a better future fully depends on collaboration. Our journey forward must be built on strong partnerships across countries, industries, and with our customers. Through Project SkyPower, we proudly join with other European leaders to drive progress toward large-scale production of e-SAF and to create real change for the industry. Together, we can forge a path to a sustainable future, where innovation and shared responsibility meet the demands of both our planet and our passengers.
Arnaud Pieton, CEO

Technip Energies

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As the world needs to reduce carbon emissions, Technip Energies is engaged in scaling-up and industrializing its decarbonization solutions alongside partners, governments and the entire industry, notably for air travel. Together, only, we can accelerate decarbonized aviation fuel and unlock the market. To ramp up the supply of SAF fast enough, it is going to take collaborative efforts, such as Project SkyPower, that bring leading companies together with a focused mission. By integrating our companies’ technologies and capabilities, we aim to speed up the deployment of e-SAF and bring real solutions to the industry.
Christian Poulsen, CEO

Copenhagen Airports A/S

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Sustainability is a top priority at Copenhagen Airport and as an airport we have a responsibility to contribute to a more climate-friendly aviation industry. In this regard, partnerships and collaboration across the aviation value chain – such as Project SkyPower - are the key to innovative solutions. It is therefore my utmost pleasure to join the e-SAF alliance for Europe on behalf of Copenhagen Airport and contribute to an acceleration of initiatives for a more sustainable future in aviation.
Christian Scherer, CEO Commercial Aircraft

Airbus

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Airbus has a proud history of pioneering innovation. This spirit is reflected in the ambitious targets we have set to contribute to the decarbonisation of aviation. Working together as an industry will help us continue connecting people and economies through air travel for the next generations to come. As a member of Project SkyPower, we’re ready to take action and advocate for the required policy and financial support, leveraging the EU sub-mandate on eSAF as an opportunity for Airbus and for Europe.
Jan Toschka, CEO

Zaffra

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While the economic and social benefits from flying are beyond any doubt, we need to address the emissions of the aviation sector. As we have seen in many other industries, the beginning of the decarbonisation journey is particularly challenging and requires a shared vision of the ecosystem. Zaffra is committed to being a purposeful leader in this mission: leveraging world-class technologies, asset development and operations’ expertise of our shareholders, Topsoe and Sasol, enables us to build complementing partnerships to accelerate the production of eSAF. Our ‘build, own and operate’ ambition focuses on Europe in the short term, where most of our current SAF projects reside. Working with SkyPower is a great example how ecosystem collaboration takes shape and I am honoured to be part of this team.
Kenton Jarvis, CEO

easyJet

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It’s without question that Sustainable Aviation Fuel will be one of the most important ways the aviation sector lowers its impact on the climate, and power-to-liquid will be crucial to scaling up supply to meet aviation’s demands. easyJet has long pioneered new innovations and technologies and we strive to be at the forefront of developments that will help us decarbonise the sector and provide lasting and impactful benefits. We are delighted to join Project SkyPower and the many other influential organisations working hard to make e-SAF a commercial reality by 2030.
Matthew Viergutz, CEO

Velocys

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We face an urgent and collective challenge to decarbonize air travel, making it crucial to develop cost-effective solutions for the public. Velocys has spent over two decades advancing Fischer-Tropsch technology to make sustainable aviation fuel a low-cost reality. I am proud to be part of a diverse set of leaders who bring different strengths together to solve this challenge. That is why we joined Project SkyPower - we are not just imagining a sustainable future but actively creating it through collaboration.
Mohamed Kallala, CEO

Natixis CIB

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We are convinced that the decarbonization of the aviation industry relies first and foremost on accelerating the shift to lower-emission aviation fuel. We also believe it is our responsibility, as a bank committed to aviation, to support our clients’ contribution to the industry’s net-zero pathway. We welcome SkyPower’s initiative, which brings together industry stakeholders’ efforts in Europe to allow this innovative technology to reach scale. In line with our ongoing initiatives, we are proud to join this disruptive and pioneering project.
Niklas Lund, CEO

Rockton

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This is not the time for aviation’s stakeholders to view the launch of large scale e-SAF production in Europe as somebody else’s problem to solve. Instead, there is a clear need for all the various participants within the value chain to engage and contribute towards this objective and enable production to come online in near future.
Maarten van Dijk, CEO

SkyNRG

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Since co-founding SkyNRG in 2009, we’ve been committed to scaling up the SAF market together with our partners. Over the years, we’ve gone from strength to strength in building demand and production capacity, but we know the challenge ahead requires even greater collaboration and innovation. That’s why we joined Project SkyPower, to accelerate the development of e-SAF, a scalable solution that can help aviation reach net-zero by 2050. We are a frontrunner in e-SAF and our goal is to have our first commercial scale production facility online by 2030. To get there, we must remove barriers holding back Europe’s first e-SAF plants from reaching final investment decisions.
Steven van Rijswijk, CEO

ING

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Future-proofing aviation is a critical challenge. That’s why we are excited to join Project SkyPower to support the further development and availability of e-SAF as one of the areas that can contribute to reducing the use of fossil fuels in the sector. Together with the partners in the alliance, we will be looking for opportunities to help scale production of such fuel. Progress will require a system-wide approach, including engagement with governments and policy makers.
Thomas Engelmann, CEO PtX Fund

PtX development fund and head of energy transition at KGAL

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KGAL supports the SkyPower project because we firmly believe in the potential of e-SAF derived from green hydrogen. Carbon-neutral e-SAF is the most efficient and eco-friendly way to bring the hard-to-abate aviation industry to CO2 neutral. With the SkyPower initiative, we want to raise public awareness of the enormous benefits of e-SAF and give a boost to the many promising projects across Europe.
Toby Edwards, CEO

Victor

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Whichever pathway we take, sustainable aviation fuel is critical for our industry to achieve net zero carbon by 2050. Whilst HEFA SAF remains the best option today, the prospect of enabling flyers - particularly in our case private jet users – to voluntarily buy e-SAF to credibly reduce the lifecycle carbon emissions of their flight, is an exciting one. Alongside inspirational leaders from across the aviation value chain, representing Victor and the wider business aviation sector, I’m excited about the challenge of making e-SAF a commercial reality by the end of 2030.

Who's on board

7 independent members

Paul Polman, Business Leader (Co-Chair)

Collaborating across your value chain is hard territory for any CEO, but it is essential if we’re to transform aviation with the speed and scale the world needs. Fortunately it’s also the business opportunity of a lifetime for the companies prepared to lead.
Eveline Speelman, Partner

Systemiq

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The aviation sector is grappling with one of the most difficult challenges in emission reduction, and while e-SAF holds significant promise, the road to widespread adoption is complex. Project SkyPower unites the value chain to promote transparency in e-SAF economics and attractiveness, understand financial and non-financial bottlenecks, and champion the collaboration required to construct the boundary conditions needed for projects to reach FID. With Project SkyPower, we are setting the stage for e-SAF to eventually reach a tipping point in adoption, starting with pioneering initiatives in Europe.
Dick Benschop, Chair of the Board

MPP

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The use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel is starting to take off. Current production is focused on biofuels. Project Skypower wants to accelerate the adoption and production of e-SAF, a necessary building block for driving sustainability in aviation. Supported by the Mission Possible Partnership, this initiative sets a precedent for collaborative action across value chains, a model that can be replicated across all harder-to-abate sectors. We extend an invitation to all stakeholders from across the aviation and energy value chains to join us in this critical endeavour.
James Hooton, Managing Director

GFI

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Project Skypower provides an excellent framework to seed the SAF PtL industry in the EU and UK, by helping 2-3 plants through FID. It aims to achieve this by aligning stakeholders, identifying critical levers to de-risk investment, developing detailed financial models that quantify the resulting value accretion, and then supporting the execution of those levers, up and down the value chain, and targeting stakeholders at both the c-suite and working level. This aligns with the work that the Green Finance Institute (GFI) has been doing in the UK, and so we are an enthusiastic and committed implementation partner to this critically important project.
Julia Reinaud, Senior Director

Breakthrough-Energy

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Turning aviation’s net-zero ambitions into reality will hinge on our ability to scaling eSAF as soon as possible. By focusing on getting first-of-a-kind projects to final investment decision and enabling effective cross-value chain collaboration, Project SkyPower will mobilize industry, governments and finance providers to accelerate progress on this key technology to decarbonize aviation. The first pages of the global eSAF story will be written in Europe!
Anna Stratton, Associate Director

CWF

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Decarbonizing aviation requires a suite of climate solutions, and e-SAF can play a central role in making the industry more sustainable. Project SkyPower aims to accelerate the production of e-SAF by harnessing the collective power of industry, governments, environmental organizations, and philanthropy. ClimateWorks is proud to support this collaborative effort to make a scalable, sustainable technology of the future a reality today, and unlock key climate and public health benefits.
Terri Wills, Director

CIFF

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