Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation, Spanish: Idac, through its Direction of Sustainable Development, agreed to boost efforts sponsored by several institutions of the public sector to develop a pilot project of alternate fuel from sugar cane.
Miguel Amaury Mejia, Idac’s Director of Sustainable Development, explained that the project to production of clean fuel for aviation, involves in its first step the National Council for the climate Chance and Clean Development Mechanism, the Energy National Council, Spanish: Cne, Ministry of Energy and Mines, The Dominican Oil Refinery and the Dominican Institute of Quality, Spanish: Indocal.
The project responsible table answers to the country commitment with the global initiatives to the development and use of sustainable fuel to aviation and with the outlined strategy by the International Civil Aviation Organization (Icao) to reduce CO2 emissions in air transportation.
It’s aligned too with the strategical objective declared by President Luis Abinader to achieve that for the 2025 year, that 25 per cent of the countrys energy comes from renewable sources.
Mejía highlighted that Idac’s participation in promoting clean energy correspond with its strategy plan, that puts in foreground the environment protection in aeronautical operation, as advertised recently by the interim general director, Héctor Porcella.