AirPlant™ One opens in Moses Lake: America’s 1st commercial E-Jet® fuel plant begins operations

Photo: Twelve Benefit Corp.

Next-gen industrial company Twelve announced June 10 that it has opened AirPlant One, the first commercial-scale facility in the U.S. to produce E-Jet fuel—a power-to-liquid (PtL), drop-in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from CO2 and renewable electricity—and E-Naphtha™, a foundational building block for thousands of everyday products.

The ribbon cutting, held at the Moses Lake, Washington, facility with Alaska Airlines and Microsoft, marks the beginning of commercial-scale production and sets the stage for commercial flights in the U.S. powered by jet fuel made from air.

The opening of AirPlant One proves that American manufacturing can produce fuels and chemicals by using abundant, onshore feedstocks—no upstream extraction required.

Cost is anchored to long-term power contracts rather than commodity markets or OPEC decisions.

AirPlant One is successfully producing on-spec jet fuel that meets ASTM-certification standards for use in commercial aircraft—it requires no modifications to aircraft, engines or existing airport infrastructure.

The on-spec jet fuel is being delivered and sold for commercial aviation use as planned.

Alaska Airlines will operate regular domestic flights using E-Jet SAF manufactured at AirPlant One.

“We broke ground on AirPlant One with a simple thesis—that the fuels powering the global economy could be made from renewable electricity and air, anywhere in the world,” said Nicholas Flanders, co-founder and CEO of Twelve. “Today, that thesis is operational and Alaska Airlines will fly on fuel made right here in Washington state. This is what American industrial electrification looks like.”

Twelve's eManufacturing process captures CO2 from the air, combines it with water and renewable electricity, and converts those inputs into hydrocarbon fuel molecules using an electrolyzer.

In addition to aviation fuel, AirPlant One produces E-Naphtha—a versatile eChemical derived from CO2, water and renewable energy.

Chemically identical to traditional naphtha, it serves as a drop-in substitute and foundational building block for thousands of everyday products—from plastics and packaging to solvents and synthetic fibers.

Twelve partners with brands to produce E-Made products made with E-Naphtha, providing an upstream solution for decarbonizing everyday products without compromise.

To date, the company has delivered proof-of-concept projects to global manufacturers including Mercedes-Benz (interior automotive components from CO2-based polymers), Pangaia (CO2Made® polycarbonate sunglass lenses), and Procter & Gamble (CO2-based ingredients for Tide laundry detergent).

Twelve said its power-to-liquid process enables something conventional fuel suppliers have been unable to offer: fixed-price, long-term fuel contracts.

“Because E-Jet fuel costs are anchored to power purchase agreements rather than crude-oil markets, Twelve can offer airlines price predictability across a decade-long horizon,” the company said. “For carriers managing billion-dollar fuel budgets, that is a structural shift, not an incremental one.”

Alaska Airlines’ early commitment was foundational to AirPlant One coming online.

In 2022, Alaska and Microsoft jointly committed to purchase output from Twelve’s facility—the commercial signal that made financing and construction possible.

Alaska Star Ventures also participated in Twelve’s $645 million funding round as an investor, deepening a partnership that spans procurement, capital and flight operations.

Microsoft supported the scale-up of AirPlant One through a strategic investment from its Climate Innovation Fund and SAF offtake agreement.

Utilizing a book-and-claim accounting model, pioneered alongside Alaska Airlines, this agreement will allow Microsoft to reduce its reported emissions associated with business travel.

Twelve said the commissioning of AirPlant™ One is the opening chapter of a larger story.

Twelve’s technology is designed to scale to additional production sites and airline partners, and fuel and chemical products.

The company said AirPlant One establishes that power-to-liquid production is commercially viable in the U.S. today and positions Twelve to expand domestic production capacity as U.S. energy infrastructure continues to grow.