WA wins e-fuel and hydrogen power pledges at Paris Air Show

By Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times

PARIS — On the opening day of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee announced that California-based clean energy startup Twelve plans to set up an industrial facility in Moses Lake to make jet fuel from electricity, water and air.

He also announced that another sustainable aviation pioneer working on hydrogen-powered flight, ZeroAvia, will expand its existing facility in Everett. By the middle of next year, Zerovaia plans to increase its current 30-strong workforce there by a factor of five.

Inslee said the two companies add to a “rapidly growing ecosystem of world-leading innovators located in Washington state who are building the future of sustainable aviation fuels and zero-emission propulsion systems.”

Startup Twelve, named for the most common isotope of carbon, aims to make carbon products typically derived from fossil fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO2 that’s in the air.

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