From afar, the station of Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe (82) looks like an ordinary petrol station. Up close, everything is different: no gun but a mouthpieceno price per liter but per kilono pressure to maintain on the gun but a simple pressure on a button to inject the gas. Welcome to the world of green mobility. Here the vehicles fill up with BioNGVan alternative to diesel.
– Pascale Daniel
From the biogas plant… to the coach tank
Such an illustration of the energetic transition, the Tarn inaugurated its first BioNGV station on Wednesday. An alternative to conventional diesel, Natural Gas for Vehicles comes directly from methanization plants. The latter, according to the site gaz-mobilite.fr transform into fuel “household waste, sludge from wastewater treatment plants, agricultural products and mowing from green spaces, residues from the food industry or collective catering, etc..” The pumps that distribute this green fuel are installed in the Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe business park. two minutes from the A68. Lola Bénégui is the innovation director of the Seven group which is developing the station, she explains the advantages for the environment:
This station makes it possible to improve the quality of the air locally because we are on a virtuous fuel produced from renewable energies
The manager develops:
This makes it possible to avoid any fine particles, to reduce by 50% the emissions of nitrogen oxide which are very harmful to health and CO2 emissions.
The icing on the cake, the BioGNV allows you to benefit from a Crit’air 1 sticker and therefore to enter all ZFEs (Low Emission Zones).
Before the war in Ukraine, BioNGV was 30% cheaper than diesel, but right now the kilo of BioGNV is €2.77.
The Occitanie Region aims to become the first positive energy region
The Occitania region is the main user of the Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe station. She just fitted out 15 BioNGV coaches. Each of these vehiclesconsumes 24 kilos per 100” explains the driver Francois Bel,for the moment happy with this vehicle in test“which adds that” it drives like a normal coach but there is a little more rocking when it’s windy and on bends because the gas cylinders are on the roof of the vehicle.“Vice-president Jean-Luc Gibelin recalls that the Occitanie Region aims to become the first positive energy region:”it is a realization of our commitment, it is the realization of the green pact, to be the first region with positive energy, it is necessary to reduce by 60% the greenhouse gas emissions linked to mobility“. The chosen one adds:
We have an obligation to multiply all the solutions: BioNGV, lowering diesel, electricity and hydrogen.”
Other BioNGV stations already exist in Occitanie: in Haute-Garonne, Hérault, Pyrénées Orientales, Hautes-Pyrénées, Gard and Aveyron.
The Saint Sulpice-la-Pointe resort is intended to become a multi-energy station. She will distribute‘hydrogen from 2024.