Partners
We are developing a robust and strategic partnership ecosystem. This ensures we are engaged in global opportunities and have access to world-leading capability as we scale-up our organisation for NPT’s First of a Kind 2G ethanol plant and deliver Project Speedbird entailing multisite implementation. We already have a number of key partnerships in place and look forward to developing and strengthening further collaborative relationships.
International Airlines Group (IAG)
International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, LEVEL and Vueling, has shown its commitment NPT, seeing it as a crucial pathway to the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). IAG’s investment progresses the development of NPT’s first of a kind 2G ethanol commercial-scale production facility.
British Airways (BA)
NPT is in partnership with British Airways to accelerate the UK’s flagship Sustainable Aviation (SAF) and carbon removal initiative called Project Speedbird. This large-scale production facility will help support British Airways’ goal of using Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) for 10% of its fuel by 2030. British Airways intends to offtake all the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) produced from Project Speedbird to help power some of its flights.
LanzaJet
LanzaJet is a partner in Project Speedbird and the 2G ethanol produced by NPT will be processed into Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel through LanzaJet’s Alcohol-to-Jet (AtJ) technology, as has recently been deployed at LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Facility in Georgia, USA.
A. W. Jenkinson
A.W. Jenkinson Forest Products and its associated businesses have specialised in the harvesting, processing, and transportation of wood products for over 50 years, utilising timber co-products that would previously have no recognised use. They will be an exclusive feedstock provider of woody residue from forestry operations in Northern England and Scotland for NPT’s commercial scale 2G ethanol and biochar production facility.
UK Government, Department for Transport (DfT)
Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Competition
NPT was one of three winners of the DfT’s Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Competition which aimed to support the development of a domestic advanced biofuel industry. Improving on first-generation biofuels (those made from traditional crops, starch, sugars or vegetable oil), advanced or ‘2G’ fuels have the potential to deliver greater carbon savings without the same concerns around food security and land use change. NPT subsequently received a grant of £4.7m which supported the construction of a demonstration plant in North-East England.
Advanced Fuels Fund
In 2023, Project Speedbird, NPT’s joint partnership with British Airways and LanzaJet, secured £9m further funding from the Government’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) competition.
