NEG8 Carbon Chosen to Sit on the Irish NSAI/TC 75 Committee and SAF Taskforce
13 April 2026
NEG8 Carbon is on the forefront of advocating for decarbonisation and climate action, particularly in Ireland and the EU. Besides engaging with government leaders, NEG8 now sits on the NSAI/TC 75 committee and the SAF Taskforce in Ireland.
NEG8 was invited to be a part of these committees on the back of its decades of experience in the decarbonisation and CCUS fields. In its position as a leading developer of carbon capture technology, NEG8 Carbon contributes its expertise to these government groups that are influencing far reaching policies in Ireland.
The two NEG8 representatives invited to sit on these committees are both established experts in the CCUS field. Prof. Don MacElroy was Chair and Head of the School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering University College Dublin for 14 years and is now Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering. NEG8’s other representative, Dr David Mulrooney, completed his PhD in MOFs (Metal Organic Frameworks), the carbon capture technology for which the initial developers won the Nobel Prize.
NSAI/TC 75, the National Standards Authority of Ireland for “Carbon dioxide capture, transportation and geological storage”
BACKGROUND ON THE NSAI/TC 75 COMMITTEE
CEN, the European Committee for Standardisation, plays a central role in developing voluntary standards across Europe. In the area of carbon capture, utilisation and storage, CEN has established the Technical Committee 474 to address the full CCUS chain, including design, construction, operation, inspection, maintenance, CO₂ stream quality, risk management, system integrity, and monitoring.
Europe needs a common technical basis for how captured carbon dioxide is handled and controlled, which is where CEN comes in. By developing these standards, CEN supports greater consistency across European industry and helps provide a framework that can support emerging carbon management activity.
While the ISO standards are for international use, CEN develops standards for Europe. Although the two bodies cooperate, their scope is not the same. ISO/TC 265 focuses on Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) whereas CEN’s work in this area also includes carbon utilisation, which better reflects European needs.
Ireland is connected to these via the NSAI, the National Standards Authority of Ireland, which is Ireland’s national standards body and a member of both CEN and ISO. This means Ireland can contribute to European and international standards development, while also adopting European standards nationally through NSAI. The NSAI/TC 75 committee reviews the CEN and ISO standards around CCUS and develops voluntary standards applicable to the Irish context.
For more: About CEN and The launch of European Standardization on carbon capture, utilization and storage
The SAF Taskforce
NEG8’s Direct Air Capture technology has demonstrated its viability by NEG8’s involvement in an eSAF project in the UK, Eq.Flight.
BACKGROUND ON THE SAF TASKFORCE
The Department of Transport’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Task Force was set up in December 2023 to help shape the Irish national SAF policy.
It drew together 27 organisations spanning government, industry and academia, and following the release of Ireland’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Policy Roadmap in August 2025, it was reformed as the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Advisory Group. In this context, eSAF denotes the synthetic component of SAF, that is, aviation fuel produced from renewable hydrogen and captured carbon rather than from biomass-derived feedstocks.
The taskforce’s purpose is to help Ireland chart a course toward lower-emission aviation while preserving air connectivity and generating industrial opportunity. The Irish roadmap makes clear that SAF policy is designed to assist the aviation sector in achieving the emissions reductions required through to 2050, while also encouraging investment, innovation, infrastructure development and supply-chain growth.
Synthetic aviation fuel holds particular appeal for Ireland, as the country sees scope to manufacture it using renewable hydrogen generated from planned offshore wind capacity, an approach that aligns with broader EU obligations under ReFuelEU Aviation, which mandate progressively higher SAF blends and a defined minimum proportion of synthetic aviation fuel at EU airports from 2030 onwards.
Besides the SAF Taskforce, NEG8 continues to engage with state and government bodies on matters of national importance regarding decarbonisation and eFuels, for example, NEG8 has met with Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) and Ministers Darragh O’Brien (Minister for Climate, Environment and Energy and Minister for Transport) and Mary Butler (Government Chief Whip and Minister of State at the Department of Health).
For more: Ireland’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Policy Roadmap
Finally
In addition to these Irish bodies, NEG8 Carbon is also part of eFuels advocacy groups the SASHA Coalition and the RLCF Alliance, as well as the Critical Chemicals Alliance and the Irish the CCUS Taskforce. These roles further support NEG8 Carbon’s profile in Ireland, the EU and globally, as the company sits at the nexus of technological and commercial expertise.
For more:
- Direct Air Capture Company NEG8 Carbon Welcomes Ministers Darragh O’Brien and Mary Butler
- Lift Off for NEG8 Carbon in Sustainable Aviation Fuel
- NEG8 Carbon Scales Direct Air Capture Technology