Spain, Valencia
Spain’s first public compressed natural gas (CNG) station has opened in Valencia. The launch follows an agreement reached in June 2007 between Gas Natural (Spains major natural gas supplier) and Valencia’s taxi cooperative (TAXCO). Gas Natural has invested 600,000 Euros in the facility for which compression equipment was supplied by Aspro GNC (Argentina).
This CNG refuelling station, located in the Industrial Park of Vara de Quart, is available for any vehicle that uses natural gas as fuel.
It also can refuel local garbage trucks which are already operating with this fuel, and private fleets of light vehicles. In the short term, 13 municipal waste trucks will use the facility, to be joined in the medium term by 3,000 taxis and 150 light vehicles.
Gas Natural has extensive interests in natural gas vehicles in Spain, where there are 1,400 government vehicles operating on CNG, and in Latin America where they have interests in several countries, markting under the gnAuto brand.
The use of natural gas in automotive in Spain each year prevents the emission of 23 tons of CO, 300 tons of NOx and 17 tons of particulate matter into the atmosphere, as well as 7,000 tons of CO2.
