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Specht: CE Delft study shows path to single-digit dollar per kg cultivated meat

Liz Specht · Alternative protein: it’s what’s for dinner · Apr 14, 2022 · at 42:43

Liz Specht of the Good Food Institute discusses published techno-economic analyses regarding long-term cost parity for cultivated meat.

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“So there was a study that came out last year from a consultancy called CE Delft that looked at a few different scenarios for cost reduction and found a path towards getting in the sort of single dollar, dollars per kilogram range and that, that agrees with internal techno-economic analyses performed by a number of these companies”

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A 2021 study by CE Delft found a theoretical techno-economic pathway to reduce cultivated meat production costs to the single-digit dollars per kilogram range.

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Assessment

In March 2021 (with an update in November 2021), Dutch consultancy CE Delft released a techno-economic analysis titled 'TEA of cultivated meat: Future projections for different scenarios' authored by Robert Vergeer, Pelle Sinke, and Ingrid Odegard. The study evaluated future commercial-scale scenarios (modeled for 2030) and concluded that technological scaling, lower input costs, and process efficiencies could theoretically reduce cultivated meat production costs to $5.66 per kilogram (€5.73/kg), which falls squarely within the single-digit dollars per kilogram range.

CE Delft published 'TEA of cultivated meat: Future projections for different scenarios' in March 2021 (with a corrigendum in November 2021).
The study modeled operational scenarios projecting that commercial-scale cultivated meat production costs could fall to $5.66/kg (€5.73/kg) by 2030, directly corroborating the single-digit dollar per kilogram figure.

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[1] cedelft.eu [2] respectfarms.com [3] policycommons.net [4] gfieurope.org [5] foodingredientsfirst.com [6] cedelft.eu [7] gfi-apac.org [8] rethinkpriorities.org

CE Delft TEA cultivated meat 2021 cost per kg single digit dollars CE Delft 2021 cultivated meat techno economic assessment cost per kg

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