SAF industry detail without the fog.
The SAF Podcast follows the commercial reality of sustainable aviation fuel, from project finance and mandates to feedstock pathways and carbon intensity. Recent episodes favor detailed conversations with industry figures, analysts, and policy-literate voices.
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The SAF Podcast is a focused business and sustainability show about sustainable aviation fuel. It follows the people, policies, technologies, and market assumptions behind a sector that is still proving how it can scale. The show’s recent episodes are practical and detailed. They spend less time on broad climate messaging and more time on how projects get built, which pathways are credible, and where policy creates momentum. Conversations cover gasification, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, hydrothermal liquefaction, HEFA, alcohol-to-jet, carbon capture, and biogenic feedstocks. The technical language is real, but the format stays conversational. Guests explain their backgrounds, describe company strategy, and then work through the constraints that shape their part of the SAF market. Lighthouse Green Fuels becomes a way to examine second-generation SAF and the challenge of applying proven industrial processes to new feedstocks. Xero Group opens a conversation about waste, carbon management, and hydrothermal liquefaction. North American SAF policy turns into a tour through tax credits, regional feedstock advantages, Canadian policy frameworks, and the messy alphabet of incentives. Market outlook episodes add another layer, looking at production forecasts, project-screening criteria, demand scenarios, and the wide uncertainty between near-term expectations and 2050 projections. The show is comfortable admitting what is not yet known. That gives it a useful texture. It does not pretend that every announced project is equal, or that every pathway has the same commercial risk. It also keeps returning to geography, because mandates, airports, feedstocks, and incentives make location central to SAF development. The best fit is an industry listener who wants substance without a lecture-hall tone. Analysts, aviation sustainability teams, investors, project developers, and renewable fuels observers will get the most from it. The result is a niche but valuable guide to SAF’s real-world buildout: technical enough to be useful, direct enough to follow, and grounded in the economics and policy details that decide what gets made.
Made for: For aviation sustainability professionals, renewable fuels investors, project developers, analysts, and policy watchers who want detailed conversations about SAF commercialization. It also suits business listeners tracking how aviation decarbonization moves from targets to facilities.
What sets it apart: The show stays unusually close to the mechanics of SAF: pathway risk, project selection, mandates, carbon intensity, tax credits, and feedstock geography. Its edge is specificity, with named projects and market reports treated as working documents rather than headline material.
Welcome to The SAF Podcast, the only podcast on the internet that exclusively covers sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). So if you want to find out the real issues and challenges are for commercialising and scaling SAF production, look no further.Every week we will be hearing from senior industry leaders who are actively shaping the future of SAF and aviation. Hosted by Oscar Henderson and brought to you by the team at SAF Investor. Connect with us at www.safinvestor.com
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded look at how a biogenic SAF pathway moves from technical idea to operational project.
The discussion stays practical about Alphanar Projects and Lighthouse Green Fuels. Noman Al Adhami's path from power generation into transmission and distribution, wind, and then founding Alphanara in the UK gives the material a working operator's feel.
A clear SAF market tour that ties policy to production choices.
Kenneth Hill frames sustainable aviation fuel through markets and policy, moving from U.S. production economics to the Canadian policy picture.
A measured SAF market briefing that keeps the method and the uncertainty in view.
The SAF Podcast uses Sky Energy and ICF's recent market outlook to sketch the SAF market plainly: what the forecast assumes, how the production pipeline looks, and where projects do or do not make the cut.
The SAF Podcast’s 100th episode features Mikala Grubb of Topsoe discussing HEFA, Fischer–Tropsch, eSAF, ethanol-to-jet, and other routes to sustainable aviation fuel.
The SAF Podcast interviews Alistair Lumsden of Carbon Neutral Fuels about Project Starling, a power-to-liquid sustainable aviation fuel facility planned for Workington, Cumbria.
Noman Al-Adhami, UK country head for Alphanar Projects, frames Lighthouse Green Fuels in Teesside as the group’s first UK green-fuels vertical.
This episode features an interview with Patrick Seab from Climate Tech Partners, focusing on his background and insights into VC due diligence and corporate partnerships in the climate tech sector.
This episode features an interview with Nico Nicholas, co-founder and CEO of Xero Group, discussing their approach to sustainable aviation fuel production through hydrothermal liquefaction and the company's origins in carbon management.
Kenneth Hill from Biocarbon Strategies gives The SAF Podcast a policy-heavy read on North American sustainable aviation fuel.
Mark Kelly and Anna Lisner-Rover review the SkyNRG and ICF SAF Market Outlook, with Europe and the UK framed as the demand backbone and Asia rising to just under 30% of announced 2030 capacity.