Boom times for US green energy as federal cash flows in
Posted on AllSides April 9th, 2024
From The Center
In February US company LanzaJet, which produces sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from ethanol, announced that it intended to build a second, larger plant on US soil.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a "big influence", says Jimmy Samartzis, its chief executive.
The second plant would add to its facility in Soperton, Georgia - the world's first commercial scale ethanol-to-SAF plant.
"We have a global landscape that we are pursuing…[but] we have doubled down on building here in the United States because of the tax credits in the IRA, and because...