President Joe Biden on March 11 released his $7.3 trillion budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2025. The proposed budgets for the U.S. Department of Energy, USDA and U.S. Department of Transportation all include provisions in support of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).&nbsp;The proposed budget includes $10.6 billion for DOE climate and clean energy research, development, demonstration and deployment programs. This includes more than $1 billion to improve technologies to cut pollution from industrial facilities, including nearly $900 million to commercialize technologies like SAF and zero-emission trucks. The budget specially allocates $280 to the DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office, which will, in part, support SAF initiatives.&nbsp;The <a href="https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/doe-fy-2025-budget-in-brief-v2.pdf">DOE’s proposed budget</a> also includes $8.5 billion to support researchers and entrepreneurs who are transforming innovations into commercial clean energy products, including in areas such as SAF, offshore wind, industrial heat, and grid infrastructure. &nbsp;The <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2024-03/DOT_Budget_Highlights_FY_2025_508.pdf">budget request for the DOT’s Federal Aviation Administration</a> includes $71 million for nextgen environmental research. The funding would support efforts to develop new aircraft and engine technologies, as well as to advance SAF in line with the administration’s commitments on climate change and the environment.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-usda-budget-summary.pdf">USDA’s budget</a> also supports investments in promoting a biobased economy to assist in transitioning away from fossil fuels while creating manufacturing jobs across rural America. The USDA notes that the SAF Grand Change, in partnership with the DOE and DOT, is meeting the demand to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand SAF production, which currently has a high demand. The budget request references trade policy engagement with Japan, which was supported by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service and resulted in Japan pledging to take all available measures to double demand for ethanol by 2030 for vehicles and SAF.&nbsp;USDA’s budget request also stresses that the agency is committed to continuing investments and building expertise in sustainable crops and other biomass production system and supply chains; investing in biomanufacturing capability, workforce development, and community and individual education; and providing outreach and technology transfer to producers’ processors. The USDA said it ensures farmers, foresters, small businesses, and rural economies benefit from these opportunities with attention to cost, quality and quantity of agricultural-based feedstock for producing SAF.&nbsp;Additional information on the 2025 budget request is available on the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/">website</a>.

2024-03-11 - Biden’s 2025 budget request includes funds in support of SAF (4 publications)

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President Joe Biden on March 11 released his $7.3 trillion budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2025. The proposed budgets for the U.S. Department of Energy, USDA and U.S. Department of Transportation all include provisions in support of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). 

Biden’s 2025 budget request includes funds in support of SAF

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