Sustainable jet fuel company plans multibillion-dollar plant in Longview

A sustainable aviation fuel company is eyeing a site on the Columbia River in Cowlitz County for a multibillion-dollar production facility — and a new way to fund it that limits risk for investors.

Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels, which uses wood residue from logging operations to produce biofuel for aircraft, wants to build an over-200-acre facility in Longview that it hopes will lead to hundreds of jobs, Dave Smoot, the company's founder, said.

In recent years, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facilities have popped up across Washington as companies look to leverage the state’s aerospace industry, environmental subsidies and cheap power to produce what many hope to be greener fuel for commercial jets.

Many SAF projects, however, struggle to get off the ground due to the financial risk that comes with spending lots of money to build large fuel facilities that produce biofuels that have yet to be used on a wide scale.

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