• Two other new filling stations will be opened over the coming weeks in the Madrid districts of Villaverde and Moncloa-Aravaca, thereby completing an offer of eight such filling stations in the Region of Madrid.

Earlier today, the Mayor of Madrid, Ana Botella, and the Managing Director of Retail Energy Business of GAS NATURAL FENOSA, Daniel López Jordà, officially opened a compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station for vehicles in the Madrid district of Vicálvaro. This is the fourth such facility managed by the multinational power company in the Spanish capital and the sixth in the Region of Madrid.

The new station, a self-service public facility, will supply compressed natural gas at a pressure of 200 bar and be accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The infrastructure is designed to supply the equivalent of 220 lightweight vehicles a day (12.5 GWh/year). The new station has been built in a compact module, providing a small structure with a modern design that allows for optimal integration with the urban environment.

Furthermore, it has high-tech facilities that provide both quality and safety. The station has two pumps, enabling two vehicles to fill up simultaneously, and auxiliary payment, surveillance and remote-measurement systems.

Madrid, nerve centre for vehicular natural gas

The filling station in Vicálvaro forms part of a network of four, the construction and operation of which was awarded to GAS NATURAL FENOSA via a public tender organised by the City Council of Madrid. Besides Vicálvaro, the company has already opened another such filling station in San Blas and will soon open those to be located in Villaverde and Moncloa-Aravaca.

Spain currently has 42 public filling stations supplying vehicular natural gas, 27 of which are managed by GAS NATURAL FENOSA.

The close collaboration between the Empresa Municipal de Transportes (the Municipal Transport Company, EMT in Spanish) and GAS NATURAL FENOSA has enabled EMT to incorporate vehicles that run on compressed natural gas into its fleet of 790 vehicles. The multinational power company is responsible for operating and maintaining the EMT filling station in Sanchinarro, which supplies 400 CNG buses and is the largest CNG filling station in Europe.

The Solid Urban Waste (SUW) collection service in Madrid is undertaken almost entirely using vehicles that run on natural gas. GAS NATURAL FENOSA manages the operation and maintenance service for two filling stations in Madrid and another new filling station is currently being installed.

GAS NATURAL FENOSA is also promoting Madrid as a fundamental strategic enclave for developing passenger and goods transport using long-distance natural gas vehicles. The company is working on developing a network of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) corridors, in collaboration with the European Union, with Madrid as a central point of interconnection.

Advantages of natural gas in transport

The use of natural gas as a fuel for transport helps improve air quality as it reduces the emission of nitrous oxides and suspended particulate matter (the main pollutants affecting human health) by more than 85%, and CO2 emissions (the main cause of the greenhouse gas effect) by up to 30%. It also reduces noise pollution, since a natural gas vehicle emits 50% less noise than an engine generates.

Natural gas is a very competitive fuel from an economic point of view when compared with diesel and petrol, given that it can achieve savings of up to 30% with respect to the former and 50% with respect to the latter.


Madrid, 24 February 2015.

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