CONTRIBUTORS
Shishir Maithani, CFA
Research Analyst, Franklin Mutual Series
Timothy M. Rankin, CFA
ESG Ambassador for Franklin Mutual Series,
Portfolio Manager & Research Analyst
United States
Srini Vijay, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Research Analyst
Franklin Mutual Series
United States
This is a chapter from the Franklin Templeton Institute paper, Energy transition: Accelerating investment opportunities. To read all chapters in this paper, download the complete PDF or click here.
Chapter preview
Aviation has lagged the decarbonization trend. Given air travel’s expected future growth rate, the need to reduce emissions produced by planes is urgent. Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) may be the bridge to reducing airline emissions. One of the biggest benefits of SAF is that it requires no adjustments to the airplane or engine. In fact, SAF is already blended into most airline fuel.
In this chapter, the team from Mutual Series explores investment opportunities that may materialize as companies move to make high-blend SAF a reality, particularly within industries impacted by feedstock production, power-to-liquids (PtL) technology development and SAF production and blending infrastructure. Read more, as the team discusses:
- The biggest challenges in meeting the net-zero 2050 goals involve the development and production of appropriate feedstocks, a build-out of the fuel-blending and delivery infrastructure and the viability of PtL technology. While these three items provide headwinds to reaching higher levels of SAF blending in jet fuel, they also provide opportunities for investment as the breadth and depth of the technologies increase.
- PtL SAF manufacturing process requires large-scale carbon capture capability, which is a global climate change mitigation challenge many companies are working on.
- Regulatory agencies in the United States and the European Union are moving stakeholders forward with plans to develop technology to meet production and blending goals by 2030 and 2050 and bring the industry across the net-zero emission threshold.
This is a chapter from the Franklin Templeton Institute publication, Energy transition: Accelerating investment opportunities. Arguably, humanity’s greatest current challenge is the need to shift to low and net-zero carbon in a little less than 30 years. New technologies are accelerating the renewable energy transition while reducing environmental impacts. The renewable energy sources of today and the future require new and smarter technologies as well as the rapid creation of new infrastructure. These challenges create investment opportunities as investors have a critical role given the capital required to fund this transition. To read the full paper and explore views from across our specialist investment managers, download the complete PDF or click here.
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