For a country with a population of 5.4m people, Ireland’s consumption of cooking oil per capita is significantly high. The Irish consumed 17kg per capita in 2013, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s statistics, placing it in the top third globally at the time. But despite this high consumption, Ireland is betting on eSAF to deliver the volumes needed to decarbonise aviation.

This was made clear in its recently launched Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Policy Roadmap 2025. Unveiled by the country’s Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien, the roadmap lists four policy pathways: market certainty, collaboration, supporting uptake and supporting production. These are designed to align Ireland with the EU’s SAF mandates and set the stage for domestic production.

“The roadmap recognises the important contribution that SAF can make toward decarbonising the aviation industry and it aims to provide the building blocks for the deployment of SAF in Ireland,” said O’Brien.

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