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Visit: www.ngvjournal.com Subscriptions: [email protected] Member of: 4 NGV European news biggest in Europe, with just under one million buses, Czech Republic freight trucks, cars and tractors. However, so far, cars have not been allowed to fill them up with biomethane. “If the The European Commission has found Czech plans to legislation allowed it,” said CIB‘s Chairman and NGV Italy support the creation of a refuelling network for low member, Piero Gattoni, “Italy might be able to produce emission vehicles to be in line with EU state aid rules, as enough biomethane to meet about 10-20% of the national the initiative contributes to reducing CO2 emissions without demand. Biogas turned into biomethane and injected into unduly distorting competition in the Single Market. The the national grid can be used when it is most needed.” scheme provides support of €44.5 million over six years for the construction of publicly accessible refuelling stations across the entire country for vehicles running on alternative Belarus fuels such as CNG, LNG, hydrogen and electricity. OJSC Gomselmash is testing the first grain harvesting Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition combine in the world that runs on compressed natural gas. policy, said: “The Czech scheme is yet another good example On 10 July 2017 OJSC Gazprom Transgas Belarus made the of how Member States can contribute to the fight against first fuelling of the harvester, preliminary titled “PALESSE global warming. The scheme will promote alternative fuels GS4118K”. and reduce harmful car emissions, and will encourage consumers and businesses to use greener transportation, The new combine has no analogues and is intended for without distorting competition”. Companies already active in direct and separate harvesting of cereal grains, groat crops the alternative fuels sector can apply for this support, which and grass seeds, and also features special devices for will be awarded in four separate calls for tender. harvesting corn, sunflower, leguminous and rapeseed in flat fields with a slope of up to 8 degrees. The aid measure was assessed by the Commission under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which The “PALESSE GS4118K” harvester is equipped with a allows Member States to support the development of natural gas engine, equipment consisting of cylinders for certain economic activities – in this case improving energy storage of gaseous fuels, low and high pressure lines, efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions. This is in line with valves and reduction systems. EU energy and climate goals. The use of the combine will make harvesting more The measure will encourage a significant uptake of economical and environmentally friendly. vehicles running on alternative fuels, and therefore make an important contribution towards meeting the common interest of reducing emissions and improving The Netherlands air quality. It is also in line with the European Strategy for low-emission mobility, particularly in terms of speeding The first truck fuelled by LNG has loaded a trailer with LNG up the deployment of low-emission alternative energy for at the Gas Access to Europe (Gate) terminal in Rotterdam. transport and contributing to the decarbonisation agenda. The truck is an IVECO Stralis NP400 and has enough power to transport the heavy trailer for Rolande. Business parties, including Rolande, transport company Chr. Italy Vermeer Transport and Gate terminal, put a lot of effort to adjust rules and legislation, as until now it was practically The first biomethane filling station for vehicles came into impossible to transport LNG with an LNG-powered truck. operation in early July. The facility is located at Montello SpA plant in Bergamo (Italy), which uses only the gas However, these trucks are now compliant with ADR and generated by the treatment of the organic component of the regulation at terminals (as LNG is still a relatively new urban waste produced by 6 million inhabitants. According to fuel it was not included in all regulation and instructions the data provided by the company, a production of about 32 before), and the three companies show that there are no million cubic meters is expected per year. restrictions anymore for ADR transport companies to make the transition to LNG trucks. Montello is also the first “carbon negative” plant in Italy. In addition, 38,000 tons/year of CO2 for technical and food Gate terminal is an LNG import terminal of Gasunie and use will be recovered from the generated biogas (made Vopak. Its functions are: receipt, a buffer between receipt up of about 60% methane and 40% of CO2). The feeding and continuous supply of natural gas, regasification and of biomethane into the grid is a long-awaited event, since supply. Imported LNG is regasified and stored under the Ministry of Economic Development introduced the pressure at the terminal before it is supplied at a constant first incentives for biomethane production from waste in rate to the Dutch transmission network. The main functions December 2013. of the LNG import terminal as a whole are therefore storage and handling; no waste is produced. The terminal consists According to the Biomethane Platform (“Piattaforma of three storage tanks, two jetties and a process area where Biometano”), which includes producers as well as the LNG is regasified. environmental associations, the potential of biomethane in Italy could reach 8,5 billion cubic meters of products by 2030. Rolande owns eight LNG fuelling stations in The The country already is the second European producer of Netherlands and has ambitious plans to expand their biogas and the forth worldwide, with 1,200 agricultural plants, network in Western Europe. Its mission is to provide the 4,5 billion Euros of investment, a production of 2,5 billion cleanest, economically viable fuel to transport companies. cubic meters of biomethane and the creation of 12,000 jobs. Currently, they announced that the production of bio-LNG In addition, the Italian fleet of natural gas vehicles is the will be scaled up with the support of a European CEF grant. THE GVR GAS VEHICLES REPORT 2017, September 5 Russia Spain At the end of September, Lisbon will host the start Madrid’s Municipal Transportation Company (EMT as of the 11th International rally of vehicles running in its Spanish acronym) will carry out the expansion of on natural gas – Blue Corridor 2017, which will tour the CNG stations located at its operations centers of across Europe and finish in Saint Petersburg. This year, Fuencarral, Carabanchel and Entrevías. The objective the rally focuses on the use of LNG for heavy goods of this ambitious project is to supply all the buses vehicles. Companies such as KAMAZ, Ural, MAZ and powered by natural gas, which will represent 100% of the IVECO, with various LNG-powered models, have been municipal fleet in about five years along with electric and invited to participate. Moreover, the rally will also hybrid buses. feature a wide range of dual-fuel vehicles, as well as the passenger car LADA Vesta CNG. With a view to the future, the EMT awarded the works to expand these refueling stations for over 5 million euros.