ReFuels is building first Bio-CNG station in Southeast England
Published on: Aug 28, 2023
The site is a joint venture with Foresight Group and is being built to expand Waitrose’s fleet of biomethane-powered heavy goods vehicles.
ReFuels has commenced construction of a new public access Bio-CNG refueling station at Aylesford in Kent, to be operated under the CNG Fuels brand. The facility is set to open additional transport routes for Southeast England, a region with a population of approximately 9.3 million.
Owned by a joint venture with Foresight Group, the new site will feature 12 fuel pump islands, which will allow over 500 trucks to be refueled per day. Construction has begun on land acquired from the John Lewis Partnership adjacent to Waitrose’s southeast distribution center.
This will enable the retail giant to rapidly grow its fleet of biomethane-powered heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), which is already the largest such fleet in the UK.
“Well over one hundred fleets across the UK are now adopting the fuel en masse and our new site in Aylesford, built on land acquired from one of the UK’s biggest retail HGV fleets, is a testament to this growing demand and the value fleet operators place on Bio-CNG refueling infrastructure”, said Philip Fjeld, CEO of ReFuels.
The current CNG Fuels network in the UK can refuel more than 6,000 HGVs daily. This equals an annual dispensing capacity of more than 264,000 tonnes of biomethane annually and a potential saving of more than 750,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually when compared to diesel.
Refuels’ year-end 2026 target of 30-40 stations in operation equals a total capacity of up to 15,000 HGVs per day and more than 600 million kg of biomethane annually.
