Wideroe becomes first
airline to join Embraer’s Energia
Advisory Group
By Pilar Wolfsteller19 July 2022Save article
Norwegian regional carrier Wideroe has joined Embraer’s Energia
Advisory Group - the first carrier to be associated with the Brazilian
airframer’s sustainability initiative.
The companies plan to work together to “define and establish the
real-world requirements for sustainable, emission free, and commercially
viable, aviation”.
Embraer last November unveiled the Energia family - four low- or
zero-emission concept aircraft for the regional market - that it hopes to fly
over the coming decades, including hybrid-, all-electric and hydrogen-powered
models.
Source: Wideroe / Embraer
Wideroe joins Embraer’s Energia Advisory Group on 19 July 2022
The Norwegian carrier has embarked on a series of initiatives aimed at
developing new technologies, establishing a clean-sheet company, Wideroe Zero,
to pursue these aircraft concepts.
“We established Wideroe Zero because we need the freedom to think
afresh,” says Andreas Kollbye Aks,the initative’s chief executive. “Embraer’s
approach to sustainable aviation most closely aligns with our own, and this
collaboration will get into the real-world detail, to shape the technology that
will make Zero missions flight a reality.”
“We want this aircraft desperately,” he adds. “There is more and more
pressure on us and [our customers] are more and more focused on environment,
they expect this from us. It’s fantastic how the industry is coming together to
see this happen.”
The Norwegian airline has been associated with Embraer for quite some
time – it was also Embraer’s global launch customer for the new-generation
E190-E2 in 2018. It currently has three of the type in service.
“We’re proud of our association with Wideroe, who have become a
powerful voice globally in the drive for sustainable aviation,” says Embraer
Commercial Aviation chief executive Arjan Meijer. “Wideroe’s expertise in, and
commitment to, sustainable aviation is unrivalled. The experience they and
subsequent group members bring to the program will be a key foundation of
Energia’s successful development.”
Earlier this year, Wideroe linked up with Embraer and Rolls-Royce on a
12-month study for a conceptual zero-emission regional aircraft seeking to
understand the propulsion and operational options for such types.
It had already joined Rolls-Royce and airframer Tecnam to develop an
all-electric passenger aircraft by 2026, while also working with Embraer urban
air mobility spin-out Eve on the potential operation of electric vertical
take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in Scandinavia.
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