Phelan Green Hydrogen has licensed technologies from Johnson Matthey Catalyst Technologies (JM CT) in Phase 1 of its electric sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) facility project.
Construction on the facility, which will be based in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape, South Africa and is part of the Phelan Green Hydrogen Project, is expected to begin by the end of 2026. The facility will produce around 35,000 tonnes of e-SAF annually, about 6% of EU- and UK-mandated e-SAF volumes for 2030.
Alberto Giovanzana, CEO of JM CT, said: “Phelan Green’s plans for an e-SAF facility in the Western Cape are a landmark project. It will be one of the world’s first commercial-scale e-SAF facilities and a clear signal that SAF can scale today. It also marks Johnson Matthey’s first deployment of HyCOgen and FT CANS in Africa.”
Blair Phelan, Managing Director of Phelan Green Group, commented: “Securing these licence and engineering agreements with Johnson Matthey completes the technology backbone of our project. Their team’s support has been instrumental in getting us here. We are now ready to turn renewable energy, CO2 and water into SAF, and to prove that e-SAF can be produced at commercial scale, here in South Africa.”
Phelan and JM CT Collaborate on South African e-SAF Facility
