World’s largest public access biomethane refuelling station to open in UK

Located in a logistics hub in Avonmouth, near Bristol, CNG Fuels’ new site will be capable of refuelling 80 HGVs an hour from 14 high speed dispensers.

CNG Fuels will open the world’s largest public access biomethane refuelling station for HGVs by the end of the year near Bristol, United Kingdom, the company announced.

Construction has begun on the Avonmouth station, near the M4/M5 junction, and will serve the busiest freight routes in the UK. It will be capable of refuelling 80 HGVs an hour from 14 high speed dispensers.

The station will be located in the heart of the main logistics hub in Avonmouth on the outskirts of Bristol, connecting the Midlands and London to Cornwall, Devon and South Wales.

The new station will enable fleet operators to deploy low-carbon deliveries from Inverness all the way down to Cornwall, says the company.

CNG Fuels currently operates six refuelling stations across the UK and it expects to open a 14 further stations by the end of 2022, supported by £80 million of funding from a new partnership with Foresight Group.