TRANSCEND has issued nine strategic recommendations to policymaking and industrial parties to obtain the predicted alignment of European Commission targets and supply of SAFs and green hydrogen in 2030 and to contribute to climate neutrality in aviation from 2035 towards 2050. The strategic recommendations mainly address ensuring regulations needed for the use of aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen before 2028, studying the full climate impact of new fuels, developing sustainable aviation fuels not requiring blending with fossil kerosene, continuing at European, national, regional and private levels the development of required technologies for energy-efficient SAF-powered and hydrogen-powered aircraft for regional and short/medium range, ensuring the European supply of SAF and green hydrogen, ensuring sufficient availability of renewable electricity and biomass/waste for the production of fuels to meet the European Commission targets, and assessing the impact of cost increases due to the increased use of alternative fuels on aviation demand and emissions, and possibly introduced policies to reduce negative effects.
Considerations and comments accompanying these strategic recommendations include detailed values as obtained from TRANSCEND, including amounts for bio/wasted-based and synthetic SAFs, for green hydrogen, and for renewable electricity to satisfy the targets proposed by the European Commission.
In addition to this expected contribution to objectives on environmental impacts and climate impact reduction, TRANSCEND, through its publicly available results:
• Improves the innovation capacity and integration of multi-disciplinary knowledge for alternative energy sources and novel aircraft propulsion.
• Strengthens European competitiveness in the aviation market, which will change to environmentally reduced aviation solutions and provides new opportunities to European industry.
• Strengthens European competitiveness in the new market of alternative (aviation) fuels and energy sources.
• Contributes to global mobility in our society, by serving society’s needs on global mobility and environment together.
• Provides young researchers the knowledge about the state-of-the-art to address their and future generation’s environmental and mobility needs.
