Plug Power backs $6.1B Uzbekistan SAF project

On 18 September 2026, Allied Biofuels convened a major Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) meeting at Sinopec's office in Ningbo, China. The session gathered key international engineering and technology partners supporting Allied Biofuels' $6.1 billion Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and e-SAF project in Uzbekistan, which is backed by a presidential decree.

United States hydrogen provider Plug Power is supporting the development through its subsidiary Plug Power Europe SAS. The company will deliver up to 2.4 GW of GenEco PEM electrolyzer systems, alongside the Basic Engineering Design Package and related engineering services.

The meeting aligned technical responsibilities and project interfaces among the partners. Sinopec Engineering Group Co., Ltd. is delivering FEED, systems integration, Detailed Engineering and open-book cost development. Denmark's Topsoe A/S and South Africa's Sasol South Africa Limited are providing technology licenses and engineering design for the e-SAF production pathway by combining Topsoe's SynCOR technology with Sasol's Fischer-Tropsch technology.

All stakeholders confirmed full confidence in the execution schedule, targeting a Final Investment Decision (FID) in the first quarter of 2027. The project aims to build Central Asia's first world-scale integrated biorefinery to supply sustainable aviation fuel to global markets.