INTERNATIONAL
Spain: Endesa will build a CNG station for Valladolid bus fleet
The Board of Directors of AUVASA (Valladolid bus operator) awarded ENDESA Energía S.A.U. the contract for the installation, management and maintenance of a natural gas station, whose construction period is six months, as well as the supply of the fuel. The estimated value of the 5 CNG supply contract is close to 4 million euros, with a duration of five years from the availability of all authorizations needed for the start of the effective activity.
In September 2018, the City of Valladolid approved a five-year plan for the adoption of CNG in the municipal fleet, including the addition in that period of 20 trucks for garbage collection service and 30 urban transport buses (all powered by natural gas) by AUVASA, with a total investment in vehicles of about 15.5 million euros.
This plan is part of the planning and programming strategy of two essential services in Valladolid, such as the waste collection and urban passenger transport, as well as of the allocation of resources in accordance with the principles of efficiency and effectiveness, aligning with the purposes and principles of Law 34/2007 on air quality and protection of the environment, to minimize the negative effects of air pollution.
Since the middle of 2015, AUVASA has been in an essential and unavoidable process for the renewal of its bus fleet, assuming this tender for the supply of CNG a definitive step in the consolidation of this process, clearly betting on this technology, with the environmental and economic advantages that this entails.
In this extremely encouraging scenario for sustainable mobility, where more and more Spanish transport fleets add vehicles powered by natural gas, AltFuels Iberia 2019 will take place on 11-14 June at IFEMA Trade Center, Madrid. It will be an event consisting of first level conferences and exhibition of vehicles of all kinds, refueling stations, components, plants, road and marine engines, as well as the entire universe of the alternative fuels industry with the latest technological developments, multiple options for networking, business and new advances.
