SAFV1 MONTHLY · FREE EDITION
From ambition to dependable fuel
Volume 1 · Issue 1 · November 2026
Prepared 19 October 2026 · Evidence reviewed 19 October 2026
Published 19 October 2026
What turns a SAF announcement into fuel an airline can rely on?
Welcome to the first issue of SAFV1 Monthly. Each edition brings together one substantial feature, clear explanations and a small selection of developments worth understanding. Our starting point is the whole production system: the inputs, equipment, evidence and infrastructure that have to work together.
The feature: SAF’s industrial reality
A conversion technology is one part of a much larger operation. Feedstock preparation, energy and utilities, process integration, fuel qualification, storage and distribution all shape the ability to deliver dependable supply.
Our new feature follows those connections and asks what operating evidence establishes beyond the headline. Design capacity, first fuel and sustained output each tell a different story.
Read SAF’s industrial reality: what it takes to deliver fuel →
Learn SAF: start with the foundations
What is SAF, and how is it made?
Follow the feedstocks, conversion routes and fuel-quality steps behind the acronym, with a conceptual production graphic to help connect the stages.
What makes an aviation fuel sustainable?
Understand the separate questions of technical suitability, lifecycle emissions and eligibility under a particular programme. A useful claim needs evidence for each.
Intelligence: demand and delivery
Corporate demand has potential, with conditions
A study released by IATA, Airbus and Accenture on 14 October estimates corporate purchases could support 1.0 million to 1.9 million tonnes of SAF by 2030. It identifies accounting certainty, credible tracking and simpler purchasing as priorities.
SAFV1’s reading: this is a conditional demand estimate. It is not a record of contracted fuel purchases or delivered volumes. The distinction matters when assessing how demand might support production.
An airline supply agreement comes with delivery dates
Neste’s 16 September release reports that deliveries to United under an extended agreement at Amsterdam ran from June through August 2026. Deliveries at Chicago O’Hare began in July and are planned to continue to June 2027.
SAFV1’s reading: an identified customer, airport and delivery period make the reported milestone more useful. The release remains company-reported evidence and does not establish a plant’s sustained utilisation.
Source: Neste, 16 September 2026
One question to take away
When a project announces progress, which connection still needs to be demonstrated: dependable inputs, integrated operation, qualifying fuel or delivery to the customer?
Have public evidence or a correction to share? Contact the editorial team.
Next edition: December 2026, due 16 November 2026. SAFV1 Monthly is dated for the following month and published on the third Monday of the preceding month.
Primary sources were reviewed on 19 October 2026. Company developments are attributed to their issuers; forecasts and SAFV1 assessments are labelled. This edition contains no original interviews or independent operating audit.
SAFV1 was founded by CarbonCore, which publishes and currently supports the publication. Editorial responsibility rests with the SAFV1 Editorial Team. About and disclosures.