Repsol announced May 3 that it has launched the supply of 100 percent renewable diesel at three service stations in Madrid and Barcelona in Spain and Lisbon, Portugal.
With this initiative, Repsol becomes the first Spanish company to dispense 100 percent renewable fuel in the Iberian Peninsula.
The energy company says it maintains a strong commitment to renewable fuels, which are one of the main levers of Repsol’s strategy to accelerate the decarbonization of transport and achieve its goal of becoming a net-zero emissions company by 2050.
The main advantage of renewable fuels use is that they can be used in existing vehicles without the need for modifications to engines or already existing distribution and refueling infrastructures.
The first Repsol service stations to offer these net-zero emissions fuels are located in Mercamadrid (Madrid), Esparraguera (Barcelona) and Alcochete (Lisbon region).
All three already supply renewable diesel produced from organic waste to professional customers, who have agreements with Repsol, and it will soon be made available to all customers.
Repsol stated that it has an ambitious expansion plan to cover the main transport corridors of the Iberian Peninsula.
It will have 50 service stations selling 100 percent renewable fuel by the end of this year.
“This launch exemplifies, once again, our commitment to the decarbonization of transport that we want to involve our customers in,” said Valero Marín, Repsol’s customer general manager. “At Repsol, we continue to take decisive steps to lead the commitment to renewable fuels in the Iberian Peninsula.”
Since last July, Repsol has supplied 100 percent renewable diesel to professional customers in the goods-transport sector, as well as companies in the collective transport of people and professional machinery.
In motorsports, Repsol is developing renewable fuels for the Repsol Honda MotoGP team to meet the mandate to use 40 percent renewable fuel from 2024 and 100 percent by 2027.
The company has already supplied renewable fuel to major competitions such as the Dakar Rally, where Isidre Esteve managed to complete the entire rally with 75 percent renewable fuel, and the French Formula 4, the first single-seater competition to use 100 percent renewable fuel.
“Motorsport is an excellent test bench for these more sustainable fuels, learning lessons in the most demanding conditions, in order to make them available to our customers in the near future,” Respol stated.
Repsol has been manufacturing and marketing biofuels for more than two decades, and since 2019, it has been incorporating organic waste in its manufacturing. Renewable fuels are already present in the fuels sold at service stations in Spain in a content of more than 10 percent, in accordance with current legislation.
In 2025, Repsol will have a production capacity of 1.3 million tons of renewable fuels and will reach more than 2 million tons in 2030, which will position it as a leading company in the production of these fuels in Spain and Europe.
This year, Repsol will start operations of the first plant on the Iberian Peninsula dedicated exclusively to the production of advanced biofuels from waste in Cartagena, in the Spanish region of Murcia. It will produce 250,000 tons per year, which will avoid the emission of 900,000 tons of CO2 per year.
The company will also build a synthetic fuels demonstration plant in Bilbao, using a technology that Repsol is developing together with Aramco. With an initial investment of more than 100 million euros (USD$110 million), this facility will be operational in 2025.
