Cepsa begins provide of 100% renewable diesel HVO for skilled prospects.
Cepsa has began supplying 100% renewable diesel (HVO) to skilled prospects, each at its service stations and in direct gross sales to the services of a number of firms to contribute to decarbonizing their exercise, providing them sustainable options tailored to their wants.
The power firm has already began promoting this second-generation biofuel to its skilled prospects (carriers, fleets, and so forth.) at a service station in Madrid (situated on the A-3 freeway, close to the Vallecas neighborhood) and will probably be out there at three different strategic areas earlier than the top of the 12 months. By 2024, the corporate’s purpose is to produce renewable diesel at 20 stations in its community, situated within the nation’s essential corridors and logistics hubs.
Cedric Vigneau, Cepsa’s Director of Fleets & CRT, expressed his satisfaction on reaching this new milestone and emphasised:
At Cepsa, we stay dedicated to sustainable mobility, and we need to transfer in direction of the longer term by reaching a tangible impression within the current.
“That’s the reason we’re going to provide HVO in strategic areas for our skilled prospects, as a part of our goal to assist them advance within the decarbonization of their operations by providing them this high-quality biofuel.”
José Emiliano Pardo, Cepsa’s Director of Direct Gross sales, additionally emphasised:
We’re supplying HVO on to street freight and providers firms to assist our prospects of their decarbonization course of.
“That is how we proceed to advertise sustainable mobility as one of many essential pillars of our Optimistic Movement technique.”
The corporate has already obtained curiosity on this renewable gasoline from a number of prospects, together with massive logistics firms and corporations from completely different sectors. All through its life cycle (from manufacturing to make use of), HVO achieves a 90% CO2 emission discount in comparison with conventional fuels.
Furthermore, the chemical composition of this biofuel is analogous to the normal fossil fuels utilized in immediately’s diesel engines. So no modifications have to be made to them or to the storage and distribution infrastructure.
Cepsa produces this second-generation biofuel at its La Rábida Power Park in Huelva from natural waste akin to used cooking oils and agricultural waste, thereby selling the round financial system. Moreover, with a purpose to assure provide to its land, sea, and air transport prospects, Cepsa goes to develop, along with Bio-Oils, the biggest second-generation biofuel plant in southern Europe, with an funding of as much as 1 billion euros.
This facility, which can be opened in 2026 in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, can have a versatile manufacturing capability of 500,000 tons of renewable diesel and SAF.
After efficiently finishing up varied exams utilizing renewable biofuels in air, sea, and rail transport, this challenge represents a brand new step ahead for Cepsa in its goal of facilitating the decarbonization of heavy transport by producing inexperienced molecules.
As established in its Optimistic Movement technique, the corporate goals to change into a reference within the power transition and lead the manufacture of renewable fuels in Spain and Portugal by 2030 with an annual manufacturing capability of two.5 million tons and the manufacturing of inexperienced hydrogen with an electrolysis capability of two GW. Additionally it is growing an in depth community of ultra-fast chargers at its service stations in each international locations.
Highlights:
- This biofuel is now out there at a service station in Madrid, and the corporate has additionally began to produce it straight on the services of a number of prospects
- Cepsa is working to produce this biofuel in one other three stations in strategic areas earlier than the top of the 12 months. By 2024, it’ll supply it in 20 stations in its community
- HVO (100% renewable diesel) merchandise are geared in direction of skilled prospects, who’ve already proven curiosity on this answer, which permits a discount in CO2 emissions of as much as 90%
- Cepsa produces renewable fuels at its La Rábida Power Park (Huelva) from natural waste and used cooking oils, which the corporate already provides to a number of prospects within the aviation, maritime, and railway sectors
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Cepsa begins provide of 100% renewable diesel for skilled prospects, November 8, 2023
