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An envelope of 300 million euros per year will in particular be devoted over the period 2024-2030 to the design of new aircraft and new engines.
Objective “green airplane“. During his visit to a Safran factory this Friday morning, Emmanuel Macron announced a series of aid and investments for the sector, totaling several hundred million euros.
On the one hand, an envelope of 300 million euros per year will be devoted over the period 2024-2030 to the design of new aircraft and new engines. “We’ll triple the effort“Launched the Head of State in front of employees of the industrial group in Villaroche, about fifty kilometers from Paris. He added that 200 million of public and private money would be allocated to the development of small electric or hydrogen planes. Similarly, 200 million euros will go to biofuels for aviation, announced the President of the Republic.
Emmanuel Macron has also announced the upcoming installation of a biofuel plant in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in Lacq. BioTJET, carried by the company Elyse Energy, is “a biofuels project” Who “is going to open in Lacq in a region that is well acquainted with energy” And “will create 700 direct jobs” or 100 on the site and 600 on all recycling players, said the Head of State.
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A sovereignty sequence
Emmanuel Macron met the main leaders of the sector (Airbus, Safran, Thalès, Dassault, Air France KLM, Aéroports de Paris, etc.) around a dinner Thursday evening at the Élysée. The Head of State will also go to the Paris Air Show on Monday, a major biennial aeronautics festival canceled in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and which will be placed this year under the sign of decarbonization. This sequence is part of a series of presidential announcements on the strengthening of the industrial and technological sovereignty of France, from the reinstallation of the production of drugs to the development of artificial intelligence. “France and Europe must position themselves in the competition between large blocs(China, United States, etc.) which is emerging on the carbon-free aircraft market, “able to integrate 100% biofuels“, underlines a presidential adviser.
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Produced from used oils, wood residues or algae, sustainable fuels (SAF) can be used in addition to kerosene in current aircraft, but their production is still in its infancy. Synthetic fuels or e-fuels combine hydrogen – produced from carbon-free sources such as renewable energies or nuclear power – and CO2 captured in the air or in industrial fumes.
It is thus necessary to designaircraft and engines that will consume less», notes the presidency, recalling that consumption per passenger transported has already been divided by five since 1960, by two since 1990 and must still drop by “20 to 30%“. This means lightening the planes with new composite materials as well as new aircraft and engine architectures. The air sector transported 4.5 billion passengers in 2019, before the Covid crisis, a level which it should almost regain this year and which could double by 2050.