Climate Tech Partners invest into Wildfire Energy
- Jul 6
- 3 min read
6th July 2026: Climate Tech Partners, along with Qantas and Airbus, through CTP's Aviation Sidecar, have invested $2 million in Australian climate technology company Wildfire Energy to scale its waste-to-energy and fuels platform.
Wildfire Energy has developed a novel gasification technology that converts unprocessed waste - including red bin waste - into synthesis gas (syngas) which can be used to generate power, heat, and low-carbon fuels including methanol and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Wildfire Energy is uniquely positioned to capture unserved small and medium-scale waste-to-energy markets, as its technology does not need any pre-processing, sorting or treatment. Its technology is modular and scales efficiently. The feedstock is not only abundant but also a growing issue, and offers itself as a solution for councils across Australia to avoid landfill space constraints and emissions.
This investment will help accelerate the completion of its commercial scale demonstration plant in Bulwer Island near Brisbane which, once proven, will enable broad deployments throughout regional Australia and globally through its capital-lite licensing model.
Separately, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has awarded Wildfire Energy $3.15M in grant funding to upgrade its MIHG pilot plant to demonstrate the production of bio-methanol from wastes suitable for conversion into SAF and to undertake a detailed feasibility study for commercial facilities in Brisbane and Queensland.
Today, the EU, United Kingdom, Singapore and Japan are the countries leading SAF adoption, with the UK and Japan mandating 10% of SAF by 2030. Research by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has shown that Australia has the potential to produce over 5 billion litres of SAF annually by 2030.
Patrick Sieb, Co-founder of Climate Tech Partners said:
“SAF production is desperately needed - and the Iran crisis over the last two months has shown how volatile fuel supply chains are. The market is there. What Wildfire Energy offers is a lower cost of production option, a modular technology that can easily be licensed globally and an opportunity to also deal with waste at low cost.”
Greg Perkins, CEO and Co-founder of Wildfire Energy said:
“Recent global events have highlighted the vulnerabilities of relying solely on fuel imports. Wildfire’s technology converts abundant negative value wastes into low cost sustainable fuels and chemicals, enabling local production to meet local demand. For the aviation sector our solution delivers a sovereign fuel supply and helps airlines meet mandates for sustainable aviation fuel which are coming into effect now. We have the technological solution, the efficient cost curve. Now we need to scale.”
Stephen Forshaw, Airbus Chief Representative in Australia said:
“Scaling SAF production requires optimising the cost and managing the complexity of feedstock preparation. For Australia, where foodstuffs and ‘red bins’ are as disparate as our population, the fact that Wildfire's solution can be deployed locally and at scale holds significant advantages. Local SAF production needs to be brought online to reduce our reliance on imported fuels, which is why Airbus is backing innovations that will make its local production more efficient.”
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MEDIA CONTACT
Greg Perkins, greg.perkins@wildfireenergy.com.au CEO, Wildfire Energy | 0488 150 695
About Climate Tech Partners
Climate Tech Partners (CTP) is an Australian-based climate venture platform focused on deploying capital into early-stage technologies that address industrial decarbonisation across energy, transport, mining, and industry. With deep sectoral expertise and a unique corporate partnership model, CTP is designed to accelerate commercialisation pathways for startups while delivering strong returns to investors.
About Wildfire Energy:
Wildfire Energy’s vision is to eliminate landfill by turning residual wastes into renewable energy, hydrogen and sustainable fuels including bio-methanol and sustainable aviation fuel. Global solid waste generation is over 2 billion tonnes annually and landfills are responsible for over 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Wildfire Energy’s solution is called MIHG (moving injection horizontal gasification), a simple process which converts waste into bio-syngas for upgrading into electricity, hydrogen and sustainable fuels with net negative carbon emissions. Wildfire Energy has developed modular plants which can be rapidly deployed and used to convert biomass and residual wastes at low cost.
