Sustainable aviation fuel
SkyNRG
63Credible ContributorAmsterdam, NetherlandsFounded 20090 followers
skynrg.com/Dutch SAF supply and production company co-founded by KLM that supplied the world's first commercial SAF flight in 2011 and is developing production facilities across the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US.
Green Score
- Greenwashing risk
- medium
- Data confidence
- medium
- Method
- how it is calculated
Climate Impact & Solution35%74
Does the core business genuinely avoid or reduce emissions, or build climate resilience? Share of revenue that is actually 'green'. Fossil-dependent models score low.
SAF genuinely reduces lifecycle aviation CO2 emissions by up to 80% versus fossil jet fuel, SkyNRG avoids food-crop feedstocks and its DSL-01 plant will produce 100,000 tonnes of SAF per year from residual fats and greases, but the product is currently blended at low ratios and SAF remains under 1% of global jet fuel, limiting absolute avoided emissions today.
Decarbonization & Targets20%38
Credible, science-based targets (SBTi), a real net-zero plan with progress to date, and CDP disclosure — not just a dated press release.
No SBTi-validated near-term or net-zero targets were found for SkyNRG's own operations; the company references the industry's 2050 net-zero aspiration and reports scope 1-3 GHG inventory data in its Impact Reports, but these are self-published without confirmed independent third-party validation or CDP disclosure, representing a significant gap in formal climate target credibility.
ESG & Operations15%65
Operational footprint, labour and social practices, and governance quality across the company's own operations and supply chain.
SkyNRG holds a certified B Corp score of 81.5 (well above the 50.9 median), maintains an independent Sustainability Board of NGOs and scientists, explicitly excludes food-crop feedstocks, and reports on workforce diversity (98 staff, 30 nationalities); however, its reliance on HEFA/UCO feedstocks exposes it to sector-wide concerns around supply chain fraud and mislabelled virgin oils, and labour/social practices at third-party feedstock suppliers are not independently verified in public disclosures.
Transparency & Verification15%58
Quality of disclosure, independent third-party verification, and how much hard data backs the company's claims.
SkyNRG publishes annual Impact Reports and detailed SAF Market Outlooks, reports all three GHG scopes for corporate offices, and holds RSB EU RED, CORSIA, and Book & Claim certifications with associated audit trails; however, no CDP questionnaire submission or external financial-grade assurance of emissions data was found, and production facility lifecycle assessments are not yet independently verified given DSL-01 is still under construction.
Integrity15%72
Controversies, litigation, pollution, fossil-fuel lobbying, conflict-zone involvement and governance scandals. Higher means cleaner.
No material controversies, litigation, pollution incidents, fossil lobbying, or governance scandals were found; SkyNRG actively publishes critical analysis of its own sector's feedstock constraints and proactively flags the 'HEFA tipping point' risk, which reflects intellectual honesty, though the UCO supply chain industrywide has been flagged by the US EPA for mislabelling fraud that could affect any HEFA-reliant player.
Ownership
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Why it's on ClimateTicker
SkyNRG is a genuine mitigation-focused business: its core product, sustainable aviation fuel, delivers verified lifecycle GHG reductions of up to 80% versus fossil jet fuel, and it pioneered the world's first commercial SAF flight in 2011. The company is transitioning from a pure trader/aggregator into an infrastructure developer, with its DSL-01 HEFA plant under construction in Delfzijl (Netherlands), and projects planned in Sweden (e-SAF via captured CO2) and Washington State (US). Investors should note that SAF still represents a tiny fraction of total jet fuel use, its primary feedstock (used cooking oil) faces documented supply constraints and fraud risk industrywide, and SkyNRG has not published SBTi-validated near-term or net-zero targets for its own operations.
Commitments & Certifications
Controversy & Greenwashing Watch
SkyNRG's own 2025 Market Outlook warns that HEFA feedstock demand will exceed supply after 2030, creating a structural risk that the company's current production model cannot scale to meet aviation's net-zero needs without transition to costlier advanced pathways.greenairnews.com
Despite being a sustainability-positioned company active since 2009, SkyNRG has not submitted or validated science-based targets for its own GHG emissions through the SBTi, a meaningful gap relative to investor expectations and its B Corp positioning.skynrg.com
SkyNRG's primary production pathway (HEFA) relies on used cooking oil, a feedstock the US EPA audited in 2024 amid sector-wide concerns over mislabelled virgin oils; no specific fraud has been attributed to SkyNRG but the supply chain exposure is material.sustainableaviationfuels.com
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