September 26, 2019
The commercial air carrier is investing $2 million to study the potential for a sustainable biofuel refinery in Washington state, where WSU researchers already have shown that wood waste can be converted into aviation fuel.
2/10/17 Yale Climate Connections
NARA co-director Michael Wolcott provides an interview with Bud Ward at Yale Climate Connections. The interview assesses the recent Alaska Airline flight using a blend of NARA’s biojet fuel.
01/06/2017 USDA-NIFA Press Release
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of $2.9 million in funding for research to improve biorefinery technologies.
12/6/16 Green Sense Radio
11/23/16 Smithsonian.com
In a game-changing move, Alaska Airlines Flight 4 took to the sky last week in the first-ever commercial flight powered by a brand new wood-based biofuel, flying from Seattle to Washington, D.C. Through a clever innovation that turns wood waste, sourced from tribal lands and private forestry operations in Washington, Oregon and Montana, into a clean burning biofuel, the aviation industry is one step closer to lower carbon emissions.view
11718/16 Renewable Energy Focus
Washington state-based Alaska Airlines has flown the first commercial flight powered by renewable jet fuel made from forest residuals.
The alternative jet fuel was produced by the Washington State University-led Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA).
11/18/16 Architectural Digest
Alaska Airlines has made history by successfully piloting the first commercial flight powered by forest residual biofuel. The flight, which took passengers from the airline’s Seattle hub to Washington, D.C.’s Reagan Airport, used a blend of standard jet fuel and gas derived from branches and wood scraps. These residual fragments are leftover from the thinning and harvesting of private forests in Washington, Oregon, and Montana. Traditionally, these scraps are left on the forest floor, where they eventually …more
11/17/16 Market Business News
The fuel used to power the flight is a 20 percent blend of sustainable aviation biojet fuel made from cellulosic sugars derived from forest residuals – the limbs and branches that are left over and often burned after timber harvesting of managed forests.
The biojet fuel – which is chemically identical to regular jet A fuel – is the work of the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA).
11/16/16 The True Activist
On Tuesday, November 15th, Alaska Airlines made history by flying the world’s first commercial flight using a sustainable, alternative biofuel sourced from forest residuals. The flight departed from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and successfully landed at the Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
11/16/16 Epic Fuels
First of its kind renewable biofuel made from residual wood used by Alaska Airlines
IRVING, TX–(Marketwired – November 16, 2016) – EPIC Fuels provided expertise in fuel blending as well as technical and logistical support to Alaska Airlines’ first commercial flight using the world’s first renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests. The alternative jet fuel was produced through the efforts …more