Gevo, Inc. announced that it is supplying its alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) to Avfuel Corporation for use at the Business Jets Fuel Green: A Step Toward Sustainability event, scheduled for January 17, 2019, at the Van Nuys Airport (VNY) in Southern California. This event is a kind in the general and business aviation sector marking Gevo and Avfuel’s entrance into the space with a drop-in alternative to fossil-based jet fuel. The purpose of the event is to demonstrate that renewable jet fuel, including Gevo’s ATJ, can become a mainstream, drop-in alternative for today’s general aviation aircraft. Traditional petroleum-based jet fuel, blended with Gevo’s ATJ, will be available from Avfuel for use at the airport during the event, as operators fuel up and fly with Gevo’s sustainable product. The general and business aviation space has committed to carbon neutrality from 2020 and beyond and converting some of the approximate 2.4 billion gallons per year of jet fuel in North America to sustainable jet fuel is a key to this goal. As leaders in advancing renewable jet fuel in the general aviation and business sector, Gevo and Avfuel announced earlier this year their collaboration to grow the use of Gevo’s ATJ with a multi-year supply agreement. Avfuel and Gevo will look to sell fuel to large. In addition to producing ATJ, Gevo’s production process produces protein to the animal feed market. For every gallon of ATJ produced, Gevo also produces 10 pounds of protein and can sequester up to 2 pounds of carbon dioxide as carbon into the soil, making it one of the only renewable jet fuels to produce both food and fuel while sequestering carbon dioxide and lowering the GHG emissions as compared to traditional fossil-based jet fuel. Van Nuys Airport ranks as one of the world’s busiest general aviation airports. With more than 231,000 aircraft movements recorded in 2017, the Business Jets Fuel Green: A Step Toward Sustainability event is drawing support from corporate fleets, charter companies, government operators and others. Support for the event is also being provided by the following: Van Nuys Airport Association (VNAA), General Aviation Manufactures Association (GAMA), International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), National Air Transportation Association (NATA), National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), Bombardier Business Aircraft, Phillips 66, World Fuel Services, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), World Energy, Gulfstream Aerospace, Signature Flight Support, Jet Aviation, Clay Lacy, and Castle & Cooke Aviation.