Endesa opens LNG, CNG station in Madrid

Spain’s Endesa said it opened its first public filling station that will supply natural gas to fuel vehicles in Madrid. The gas station was opened on February 24 and will supply both compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG).

With this station in Valdemoro, Endesa will have five stations working over the next few months as part of the company’s natural gas vehicle development plan implemented in Spain and France, the company said in a statement.

Endesa opened its first natural gas fuelling station for vehicles in the Balearic Islands, in Palma de Mallorca. Then, in 2015, Endesa inaugurated its first gas station in Lyon, France and this  station in Valdemoro has now joined this list.

The company’s deployment plan includes the inauguration, during the first six months of the year, of a new gas station in Zaragoza and another in Cadiz, the statement said.

The new station will initially supply LNG and CNG fuel to a fleet of buses belonging to AISA in the towns of Pinto, Valdemoro and Ciempozuelos.

According to the statement, AISA currently has 200 vehicles, 10% of which will be natural gas vehicles before the end of the year, which will not “only improve service competitiveness and comfort for passengers, but also prevent the emission of over 40 tonnes of NOx and 32 tonnes of SO2“.

Natural gas is used in over 14 million vehicles worldwide, 1.3 million of which are currently located in Europe, the statement said. In Spain the NGV market is mainly urban bus fleets, municipal service fleets and long-distance road transport vehicles.

“Natural gas vehicles represent savings of almost 50% over petrol vehicles and 35% over diesel vehicles, with very similar maintenance costs, the same supply waiting times and an autonomy of around 300-400 km or even more in the case of liquefied natural gas,” the statement added.