Building on the strategic partnership launched in 2025, Norsk e-Fuel and Boeing are starting a joint program to test how e-fuels perform in real-world operations. Through significant and targeted investment, the collaboration will generate practical data on performance, operational benefits, and supply requirements helping inform aviation.

“This initiative goes beyond technology development,” said Lars Bjørn Larsen, CCO at Norsk e-Fuel. “Together with Boeing we are contributing to a broader European objective: strengthening energy security, resilience and independence.

The initiative includes a focus on defence, where secure energy supply is critical. Insights from these applications, ranging from fuel performance to logistics and infrastructure, will help accelerate adoption of e-fuels in commercial aviation. The objective is to ensure early demand in one sector supports scale-up for the entire industry.

“Scaling SAF, and particularly e-SAF, is important for the sustainable and resilient growth of both commercial and defence aerospace – this is only possible by reducing the cost of SAF through stable policy and incentives that de-risk investments for early developers,” said Steve Gillard, Regional Sustainability Director at Boeing. “Through our continued collaboration with Norsk e-Fuel, Boeing strengthens its commitment to exploring the potential of e-fuels and ensuring a secure energy supply for the whole of society including defence while also firmly supporting our airline customers and their decarbonization ambitions.”

"This is an important measure supporting the defence sector’s sustainability goals. Increased production of SAF in Norway and the Nordic region strengthens security of supply. To achieve significant emissions reductions across the sector without impacting operational capability, improved access and use of SAF is the most effective single measure," added Gro Jære, Director General of the Norwegian Defence Material Agency.