Official Statistics

Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Mandate 2025: First provisional

Supply of sustainable aviation fuel under the SAF Mandate for January to December 2025.

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The SAF Mandate statistics are a new set of statistics with the first publication coming out in August 2025. This aligns with the publication cycle of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) statistics.

The data tables report on aviation fuel supplied to the UK under the SAF Mandate, which came into effect as of January 1 2025.

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Statistics on the supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), reported under the SAF Mandate for 2025, based on data available as of 31 July 2025.

This is the first provisional report for 2025 and contains an incomplete dataset for the year. The complete and finalised dataset will be published in November 2026 alongside the final report for 2025.

The tables include information on the:

  • amount of UK aviation fuel from low carbon and fossil fuel
  • number of SAF Certificates (SAFCs) which have been issued to fuel meeting the sustainability requirements
  • balance of SAFCs by obligation period
  • trades of SAFCs between suppliers and traders
  • carbon and sustainability characteristics of the SAF to which SAFCs have been issued
  • voluntary scheme data of SAF

For more details, see the notes and definitions.

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Published 14 August 2025

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