Spain-headed multi-energy major Repsol S.A. has launched the supply of 100 percent renewable diesel (HVO100) at three service stations in Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon, Portugal. With this initiative, Repsol becomes the first Spanish company to dispense a 100 percent renewable fuel in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Renewable fuels are one of the main levers of Repsol’s strategy to accelerate the decarbonization of transport and achieve its goal of becoming a zero-net emissions company by 2050.
The main advantage 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 HVO100 are located in Mercamadrid (Madrid), Esparraguera (Barcelona), and Alcochete (Lisbon region).
All three stations already supply renewable diesel (HVO100) produced from organic waste to professional customers, who have agreements with Repsol, and it will soon be made available to all customers.
Expansion plans
The multi-energy company has an ambitious expansion plan to cover the main transport corridors of the Iberian Peninsula. It will have 50 service stations selling HVO100 by the end of this year.
Repsol, as part of its multi-energy strategy, thus offers its customers a new 100 percent renewable product, in addition to its wide range of electric mobility, shared mobility (Wible), AutoGas, CNG/LNG, and Neotech fuels.
This launch exemplifies, once again, our commitment to the decarbonization of transport that we want to involve our customers in. At Repsol, we continue to take decisive steps to lead the commitment to renewable fuels in the Iberian Peninsula, said Valero Marín, Customer General Manager at Repsol.
Motorsport is an ideal test bench
Since July 2022, Repsol has supplied HVO100 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 customers in the near future.
Net-zero emission fuels
To decarbonize mobility, Repsol is committed to an energy model that combines electrification, renewable fuels, and hydrogen. All energy solutions must be taken into account to guarantee supply and reduce emissions as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Repsol has been manufacturing and marketing biofuels such as biodiesel for more than two decades, and since 2019, it has been incorporating organic waste in its manufacturing.
Renewable content is already presently blended at around 10 percent in fossil transportation fuels sold at service stations in Spain in accordance with current legislation.
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, Murcia Region.
It will produce 250 000 tonnes per year, which will avoid the emission of 900 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year.
Renewable fuels are those produced from renewable raw materials, and according to Repsol, these are zero net emission fuels.
Specifically, advanced biofuels are made from organic waste such as used cooking oils (UCO), animal fats, and agricultural and forestry residues that are not used for food. Likewise, synthetic fuels are obtained from captured CO2 and renewable hydrogen.
In 2025, Repsol will have a production capacity of 1.3 million tonnes of renewable fuels and will reach more than two million tonnes in 2030, which will position it as a leading company in the production of these fuels in Spain and Europe.
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 EUR 100 million, this facility will be operational in 2025.
