UK: Gasrec, Ocado Group to open new CNG station in Dordon
The new facility is due to open in Q2 2022 and will support Ocado Group’s truck fleet transition from diesel to blended biomethane.
Gasrec, a major fuel provider for gas-powered commercial vehicles on UK roads, is expanding the supply of compressed natural gas (CNG) for trucks in the UK with the opening of a new filling station at Ocado Group’s Dordon Customer Fulfilment Centre.
The new facility at Dordon is due to open in Q2 2022 and will be designed and built by Gasrec to fuel the 10 CNG tractor units already running from the site and allow for the remaining Dordon tractor fleet (70 total) to transition from diesel to blended biomethane, announced Gasrec.
The facility at Dordon will be a tanker fed operation, with Ocado signing a 10-year supply agreement with Gasrec. With 60 natural gas-powered trucks operating from Hatfield and Dordon, this latest development will allow Ocado to more than double their total CNG units over the next three years, with over two thirds of its total fleet running on natural gas.
In January 2019, online supermarket Ocado Group became the first UK retailer to self-fund the purchase of an onsite grid-connected gas refuelling station at its depot in Hatfield, according to a company’s press release.
Gasrec supplies, builds and operates Bio-LNG and Bio-CNG refuelling stations in the United Kingdom.
