Europe’s largest CNG refuelling station opens in UK
Demand for bio-CNG has soared 800% since 2017, CNG Fuels announced after adding two new refuelling stations to its UK network with the support of Ingenious.
CNG Fuels has added two new refuelling stations to its network in the United Kingdom with the support of Ingenious. The new stations in Warrington – Europe’s biggest – and Northampton are capable of refuelling over 1,000 HGVs a day, more than doubling the 600-a-day capacity of its existing stations at Leyland, Lancashire and Crewe, Cheshire.
The company is also planning to open an additional six to eight stations over the next 12 months as it expands its strategic network of HGV refuelling stations in line with burgeoning demand.
The fuel supplied by CNG Fuels is renewable biomethane currently sourced from waste feedstocks, such as food waste. The company is now securing supplies of biomethane from manure to create a fuel that will be net zero emissions on a well-to-wheel basis . It expects to begin offering carbon neutral biomethane across all sites from next year at the same price as the renewable biomethane fuel it currently supplies.
“We’re at a tipping point. Fleet operators are waking up to the urgency and scale of decarbonisation necessary for net-zero emissions by 2050 and we’re seeing demand for our fuel increase rapidly as a result. Our customers ordered hundreds of new biomethane fuelled trucks in 2019 and that trend is only set to accelerate over the next decade”, says CEO of CNG Fuels, Philip Fjeld
We’re making the transition to carbon neutrality easier for fleet operators by developing a nationwide network of public access biomethane stations on major trucking routes and at key logistics hubs,” he added.
CNG Fuels is also consulting on how its network of refuelling stations can best accommodate low-carbon hydrogen and battery electric technologies for HGVs, so that it can support customers when these become commercially viable.
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