The President of the Council of Ministers Alberto Otárola referred to the widespread adoption of natural gas and said that the Ministry of Energy and Mines will promote the expansion of the current natural gas network with an investment of 491 million soles. He added that, until December 2022, 370,000 vehicles were converted to CNG.
With the collaboration of GESA, Cálidda opened this new facility, located on the Panamericana Norte highway, in the District of Puente Piedra, Department of Lima. It will have a great impact on the development of sustainable mobility, promoting clean and economical Peruvian energy, which gives heavy duty fleets a range of up to 1,600 km.
The new facility is an EDUX service station, a new concept of mobile and transportable unit developed by HAM Criogénica. It features one dispenser with two hoses, which allows CNG to be refueled quickly and safely in passenger cars, light vehicles and trucks. HAM has a network of more than 100 natural gas stations in Spain and Europe.
Named BioBéarn and located in Mourenx in the south-west of France, this new unit, fed with organic waste, has begun feeding its first cubic meters of biomethane into the natural gas transmission network operated by Téréga. Its development began in 2016 and will be the largest in the country with a maximum capacity of 160 GWh.
The H2 MOBILITY Deutschland initiative has put into operation Berlin’s fifth hydrogen station at the Shell filling station Tempelhofer Weg 102. It is available for refueling hydrogen vehicles at 350 bar (buses and trucks) and at 700 bar (passenger cars, light commercial vehicles and refuse trucks). It is conveniently located near the city motorway 100 and the A 113.
Expected to be operational in Autumn 2023, the new facility will be located in Parc Bryn Cegin, just off Junction 11, North Wales Expressway, Bangor, ideally suited to all North Wales traffic as well as to all trucks heading to and from the Holyhead Port. It will feature 12 dispensers, with the capacity to fill over 500 heavy-duty vehicles per day with 100% renewable bio-CNG.
The BNDES approved financing of R$ 80 million for UISA Geo Biogás S/A to build an industrial unit for the production of biomethane and electricity from sugarcane residues, in Mato Grosso. In the first phase, the plant will produce up to 11.4 million Nm³/year of biogas. The biomethane will be used to replace diesel in part of UISA’s truck fleet.
Technicians from Valeciaport, the National Hydrogen Center and Carburos Metálicos that participate in this initiative will supervise this operation that is carried out for the first time in a Spanish port. This refueling test will be the starting point for supplying hydrogen to the reach stacker and 4×4 tractor unit prototypes that will begin operations in the port this year.
The biomethane will be used to feed OPAL Fuels transportation customers at the company’s CNG stations via the Peoples Gas (Florida’s largest natural gas distribution utility) network. When used as a vehicle fuel to displace diesel, this biomethane will avoid GHG emissions equivalent to achieving zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions from more than 380 heavy-duty trucks.
The new company is vertically integrated along the entire value chain, bringing together services and products that support the energy transition and accelerate the path to net zero emissions throughout their entire life cycle. It will add a network of +5,000 stations in Europe to market and distribute a number of sustainable fuels, including hydrogen, biomethane and HVO.
