United Airlines yapanga mbiri pokhala ndege yoyamba kupeza mafuta oyendetsa ndege (SAF) kuti azigwira ntchito pa O'Hare International Airport (ORD).
Bwanamkubwa JB Pritzker, pamodzi ndi oyang'anira ndege, adasonkhana ku ORD kuti atsindike kufunikira kwa msonkho wa Illinois 'SAF pothandizira kukhazikitsidwa kwamafuta oyendetsa ndege okhazikika pabwalo lina lalikulu la ndege.
Neste, wopanga SAF, wadzipereka kupereka United Airlines pa ORD yokhala ndi mafuta okwana 1 miliyoni a Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel mu 2024. Kutumiza koyamba kukuyembekezeka mu Ogasiti.
United Airlines ndiyo idachita upainiya pokhazikitsa chandamale chofuna kutulutsa mpweya wowonjezera kutentha kwa mpweya pofika chaka cha 2050, popanda kutengera mpweya wodzifunira. Ikupitilizabe kutsogolera makampani aku US pakupeza ndikugwiritsa ntchito Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Mu 2023, United Airlines idagula mafuta ochulukirapo kuposa ndege ina iliyonse yaku US. Mgwirizano ndi Neste wapangitsa kuti O'Hare ikhale eyapoti yachisanu pomwe United Airlines yapeza SAF kuti igwire ntchito, ndikuyika amodzi mwamalo okwera kwambiri pakati pa ndege zaku US.
"Kuyambira tsiku loyamba monga Bwanamkubwa, ndadzipereka kuti Illinois ikhale mtsogoleri wadziko lonse komanso mphamvu zoyera, chifukwa chake ndidanyadira kuthandizira ngongole yamisonkho ya SAF yotsogola chaka chatha," adatero Bwanamkubwa JB Pritzker. "Malo a Illinois ngati malo opangira zinthu zatsopano ndi ma eyapoti olumikizidwa kwambiri mdziko muno amagwirizana bwino ndi ntchito yamakampani ngati United kuti apange tsogolo lokhazikika lakuyenda ndikukwaniritsa cholinga chomwe timagawana chopanda mpweya."
SAF ndi njira ina yosinthira mafuta a jet wamba omwe angachepetse mpweya wa GHG mpaka 85% pa moyo wonse - kuchokera pakupanga mpaka kugwiritsidwa ntchito komaliza - chifukwa amapangidwa kuchokera ku zinthu zongowonjezedwanso m'malo mwa mafuta obowoledwa. SAF ndi imodzi mwa njira zabwino kwambiri zoyendetsera ndege zomwe zingakankhire makampaniwo kuti asatulutse mpweya wokwanira chifukwa atha kugwiritsidwa ntchito ndi zomangamanga zomwe zilipo - palibe kusintha kwamafuta kapena injini zandege zomwe zimafunikira.
"Izi ndi zomwe zimachitika pamene zatsopano, utsogoleri ndi ndondomeko zimabwera pamodzi," adatero Purezidenti wa United Brett Hart, yemwe anali ku ORD lero ndi Bwanamkubwa. "Ngakhale msika wa SAF udakali wakhanda, pali mwayi waukulu lero kuti ndege ndi opanga malamulo azigwira ntchito limodzi kuti athandizire kukula kwake - SAF ku O'Hare idatheka chifukwa cha Bwanamkubwa Pritzker ndi Nyumba Yamalamulo ya Illinois yopereka misonkho. .”
United tsopano yagula SAF yama eyapoti ku Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, London, ndi Amsterdam.
"Ndili wokondwa kuwona United Airlines ikupita patsogolo kwambiri pogwiritsa ntchito mafuta oyendetsa ndege tsiku lililonse pamaulendo apandege ochokera ku O'Hare," Senator wa US Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) adatero. "Chimodzi mwazinthu zofunika kwambiri zomwe tingachite kuti ndege zaku America zikhale zokhazikika ndikuwonjezera kuchuluka kwa SAF. Pa gawo la feduro, ndakhala ndikukakamira kugwiritsa ntchito kwambiri SAF, ndipo ndipitiliza kukakamira kuti ndiwonjezere kupezeka kwa SAF yaku America, yopangidwa ndi America, njira yopambana yopambana yomwe imathandizira alimi apakhomo ndi osakaniza pomwe akuchepetsa kuchuluka kwa mpweya wa dziko lathu. ”
