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Norway’s Norsk e-Fuel has expanded its partnership with aircraft giant Boeing to accelerate the development of green hydrogen-based sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) for commercial and defence applications.
The extended partnership, which builds on made by Boeing in January 2025, will focus on reducing aviation-related emissions in Norway and wider Europe.
Under the effort, Boeing and Norsk e-Fuel will generate practical data on fuel performance, operational benefits, and supply requirements to inform the wider roll-out of e-SAF.
Norsk e-Fuel uses power-to-liquid (PtL) technology to convert green hydrogen and recycled carbon dioxide (CO2) into drop-in SAF. It believes one of its plants could reduce Norway’s five most-travelled flight routes by up to 50%.
The company currently has five e-fuel plants planned for the Nordics. The most advanced development, Project Mosjøen in Nesbruket, Norway, plans to produce 50 million litres of e-Crude and is currently in its basic engineering stage.
Lars Bjørn Larsen, CCO at Norsk e-Fuel, said the partnership contributes to a broader European objective of strengthening energy security, resilience, and independence.
“Expanding SAF production in the Nordic region can help reduce Europe’s reliance on imported fossil fuels while building a robust and sustainable e-fuel value chain for the future of aviation based on local feedstock and distributed production.”
Last month (March 2026), the European Commission reaffirmed enforcement of the after speculation that penalties tied to SAF mandates, including those covering hydrogen-derived e-SAF, could be weakened.
Proposed by the European Commission in 2021, the ReFuelEU Aviation framework is part of the EU’s “Fit for 55” climate package, which aims to cut EU greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030.
The regulation is designed to support the scale-up of low-carbon aviation fuels, including e-SAF produced using renewable hydrogen.
Steve Gillard, Boeing’s regional sustainability director for Europe, the Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, and Central Asia, said that SAF, and particularly e-SAF, is only possible by reducing the cost through stable policy and incentives that de-risk investments for early developers.
