The GREATER MSP Partnership-led coalition has announced Minnesota’s first sustainable aviation fuel blending facility. Flint Hills Resources, in collaboration with Delta Air Lines, is developing the facility at its Pine Bend refinery to blend up to 30 million gallons of neat SAF. A consortium made up of Bank of Americas, Deloitte, Delta and Ecolab plan to purchase the first several million gallons of SAF each year starting in the fourth quarter of 2025. As a one-year milestone, the coalition also announced a grant totaling nearly $17 million to convert a Gevo ethanol facility in Luverne into an alcohol-to-jet fuel facility for SAF production.
