From Plant to Platform: How AirPlant™ is a New Model for Industry

Advanced industrial systems like Twelve's AirPlant expand the ways we can make the essential hydrocarbons that underpin the global economy.

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For more than a century, the fuels and chemical building blocks that power modern life have depended on a highly concentrated industrial system. Petroleum is extracted where geology permits, transported across long distances, refined in large centralized facilities, and distributed through supply chains exposed to geopolitical instability, commodity volatility, and disruption.

That system achieved extraordinary scale. It also created structural dependencies that are increasingly difficult to ignore.

Industrial resilience requires more than securing the supply chains we already have. It requires expanding the ways—and the places—we can make the essential hydrocarbons the global economy still needs.

Twelve’s AirPlant™ platform introduces a new production pathway. Using advanced power-to-liquid industrial technology, AirPlant converts CO2, water, and renewable electricity into fuels and chemical building blocks. Instead of depending exclusively on hydrocarbons extracted from the ground, manufacturers can produce them from abundant inputs available across regions.

This is more than a new fuel pathway. It is a new model for industrial production—one designed to diversify supply, distribute manufacturing capacity, and turn expanding power infrastructure into productive industrial capability.

A Platform Built for Repeatable Production

AirPlant is Twelve’s integrated industrial platform for producing eFuels and eChemicals from CO2, water, and renewable electricity. It brings together the technologies required to move from electrons and captured carbon to finished, usable products.

The process begins with the conversion of CO2 into carbon monoxide, which is combined with hydrogen produced from water to produce synthesis gas, also known as syngas. Proven synthesis and upgrading processes then turn that syngas into hydrocarbons with the performance characteristics industry already requires. The outputs are drop-in synthetic hydrocarbon products. E-Jet® fuel is a drop-in power-to-liquid fuel that can work with today’s aircraft and fueling infrastructure. E-Naphtha™ is a foundational chemical building block that can be used to make a wide range of materials and everyday products – from detergents, to apparel, to cars.

That compatibility matters. Industrial transformation moves faster when new production methods connect with the assets, standards, and systems already in use. AirPlant is designed to introduce a new upstream source of hydrocarbons without requiring the world to replace every downstream product, engine, or piece of infrastructure first.

The platform model matters, too. AirPlant is not conceived as a singular facility. It is a repeatable, distributed production architecture that can be deployed where the right combination of power, CO2, infrastructure, policy, and customer demand exists. Each new deployment can expand capacity while strengthening a more distributed industrial network.

AirPlant One: From Technology to Infrastructure

AirPlant™ One in Moses Lake, Washington, is the first commercial-scale expression of this platform. The facility produces E-Jet fuel and E-Naphtha from CO2, water, and renewable electricity, demonstrating that power-to-liquid manufacturing has moved beyond the laboratory and pilot stage into commercial operation.

Its location illustrates the AirPlant model. Washington offers abundant renewable power, an experienced industrial workforce, strong transportation connections, and proximity to major aviation and technology customers. On a repurposed industrial site, those regional assets come together as a new form of manufacturing capacity.

AirPlant One is producing on-spec jet fuel for commercial aviation. Because E-Jet fuel is designed as a drop-in fuel, it can enter existing aviation systems without requiring new aircraft or engines. The same facility also produces E-Naphtha, extending the platform beyond fuel into the chemical supply chains that underpin materials, packaging, textiles, automotive components, and other manufactured goods.

The significance of AirPlant One is therefore larger than its initial output. First-of-a-kind plants establish the operating knowledge, supplier relationships, commercial structures, and workforce capabilities required for the facilities that follow. They turn a technological possibility into an industrial template.

Resilience Through Diversification

While industrial resilience is often framed as a logistical challenge of inventory and storage, lasting stability requires a more fundamental shift. True industrial resilience begins upstream, rooted in the capacity to manufacture essential building blocks through a diversification of production pathways.

AirPlant creates that option in several ways.

• Diversified Feedstocks. CO2, water, and baseload power provide an alternative to petroleum extraction as the starting point for hydrocarbon production.

• Diversified Geography. Power-to-liquid facilities can be developed anywhere in the world with access to CO2, water, and power.

• Diversified Supply. New domestic and regional production can supplement conventional fuel and chemical sources, reducing reliance on concentrated or vulnerable networks.

• Long-term Cost Visibility. Because electricity represents 70% of production costs, power-to-liquid projects can anchor a significant share of their economics to long-term power agreements rather than relying on highly volatile global crude markets. For customers managing fuel and feedstock costs across many years, that creates a different kind of planning horizon.

• Connects Energy Investment to Industrial Output. As regions add renewable generation, transmission, and other power infrastructure, platforms like AirPlant can turn electrons into transportable, storable products that serve sectors where direct electrification is difficult.

Building More Ways to Make What the World Needs

The industries that move people, manufacture goods, and support the global economy will continue to need hydrocarbons. The central question is whether the world remains dependent on one dominant way of producing them—or builds additional pathways suited to a more complex and uncertain century.

AirPlant offers a clear answer: use abundant onshore inputs, derisked and scaled technology, and renewable power to manufacture essential fuels and chemicals from the molecule up.

No single facility can transform an industrial system by itself. But a repeatable platform can establish a new category of production. As AirPlants are deployed in more locations, they can create a broader, more flexible manufacturing network—one that complements existing supply, strengthens regional capacity, and gives industries more choices about where their critical inputs come from.

That is the deeper promise of power-to-liquid: not simply making a different fuel, but building a more resilient foundation for industry.

AirPlant One is the first proof, and the opportunity is a world made from air, with more ways, in more places, to make the molecules that modern life depends on.