Repsol and Nortegas Green Energy Solutions have today opened the first natural gas filling station with continuous CNG supply. The facility is located at the service station flying the Repsol flag, and owned by Estación Servicio Galindo, at Number 4 Carretera San Vicente, in Sestao (Bizkaia), next to the Sestao and Barakaldo exit roundabout to the A-8 junction.
The new CNG point will be able to meet the demand of light vehicles (cars and vans), as well as urban medium and heavy vehicles (delivery vans and trucks).
It will be the first station in Bizkaia to have a continuous supply of CNG, without a tank being needed, thanks to Nortegas’s extensive infrastructure that means the public can have an alternative fuel supply point.
The choice of this location is in line with the consolidation of Bilbao as a ‘strategic hub’ for low-emission refuelling along the ‘Atlantic Corridor’, which links the French border, at Irún, and Galicia. An estimated average of 37,000 vehicles a day use that route.
The companies have invested nearly €400,000 in the first supply point, with the support of the Basque Energy Board (EVE) though its efficient mobility grant programme.
This investment strengthens the commitment of Repsol, Nortegas and Estación de Servicio Galindo to natural gas for vehicles as part of their strategy to foster the use of alternative energies.
Thanks to this partnership, both companies are committed to providing the public with a network of natural gas supply points, as part of the Repsol Group service stations, first and foremost in the regions where Nortegas operates as a natural gas distributor, i.e., in the Basque Country, Cantabria and Asturias.
Repsol and Nortegas have already a further two locations where pre-building work is on the point of getting underway, one in Madrid and another in Gipuzkoa.
Source: Nortegas