June 15, 2023. ReFuels N.V., one of Europe’s leading suppliers of renewable biomethane (Bio-CNG) for decarbonization of heavy goods vehicles, has opened its 11th refueling station at Newton Aycliffe in County Durham under the CNG Fuels brand, thereby expanding the nationwide coverage.
“We see strong demand from our customers for our 100% renewable and sustainable biomethane, produced from waste feedstocks, which enables heavy truck operators to reduce emissions by more than 90% compared to diesel. The new site at Newton Aycliffe is part of our strategy of growing as the leading integrated supplier of alternative fuels in the UK with a target of having 30-40 stations in operation towards the end of 2025, and longer-term expanding into other European markets,” said Philip Fjeld, the CEO and co-founder of ReFuels.
The new station expands ReFuel’s UK-wide network of public-access filling stations to include major trucking routes in Northeast England, providing customers such as Lidl, DHL, and GBA Services access to low carbon biomethane to minimize the GHG footprint of their logistics operations.
“Lidl is committed to reducing our carbon emissions across the company and over the past few years we have been gradually switching our HGV fleet to run on 100% renewable & sustainable biomethane. Bio-CNG enables us to significantly reduce our transport emissions by up to 90% vs. our diesel trucks, and the development of CNG Fuels’ latest station in Newton Aycliffe allows for the further adoption of Bio-CNG at our depot close to this new site, and will furthermore open up additional transport routes for the North East region of the UK,” said Jason Wild, Senior Consultant – Distribution & Recycling, Lidl GB.
The station at Newton Aycliffe is owned by a joint venture with Foresight Group. It comprises 14 fuel pump islands, allowing more than 60 trucks to be refueled per hour with a total capacity of more than 27 million kilograms of Bio-CNG annually, making it CNG Fuels’ highest capacity station to date. It will serve local and passing fleets using the A1(M) and will introduce fleets from Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, and Darlington to Bio-CNG as a transport fuel for HGVs.
