Overview
- Businesses, universities and researchers can bid for grants in competitions opening from February to advance projects aligned with net‑zero goals.
- Funding priorities include zero‑emission aircraft, sustainable aviation fuels and research to curb climate‑warming contrails.
- The Civil Aviation Authority will develop regulations for the widespread use of hydrogen fuel using support from this package.
- The package is paired with £63 million to accelerate new SAF plants and £2.3 billion through the Aerospace Technology Institute, building on a SAF mandate and a revenue‑certainty mechanism nearing law.
- Some funding will bolster SAF use and tracking in Africa and the Caribbean to improve offsetting participation and avoid disadvantages for UK airlines, as ministers meet industry to align decarbonisation with planned airport expansion.