Gasrec is to open its first high-capacity, public-access biomethane refuelling facility in the North West, with planning permission secured for a new station in Warrington located near the busy M6 corridor.
Construction work at the site, situated on the Omega Business Park, is expected to begin in the next three months with refuelling capacity for 1,000 gas trucks per day once fully operational.
Gasrec currently has 18 refuelling stations in operation and its growth in recent years – driven by a huge surge in demand – has seen its total refuelling capacity rise significantly.
The company’s 2027 ambition is to have infrastructure across the UK capable of refuelling about 6,000 trucks per day.
That would represent a three-fold increase in capacity within roughly 18 months for the business, further strengthening its position as the UK’s largest supplier of Bio-LNG for heavy transport.
Omega Business Park is a 775-acre major distribution hub on the M62, with close access to the M6 and links to Liverpool and the wider Merseyside logistics cluster.
As part of the design, on-site truck parking will be included at the new station to support local fleet deployments across the region.
James Westcott, Chief Commercial Officer at Gasrec, said, “The new station at Warrington forms the next step of our strategy to build a national refuelling backbone of state-of-the-art, open-access biomethane refuelling stations.
“By building these facilities in strategically located sites we are providing more road transport operators the infrastructure they need to transition to this cleaner, low-carbon fuel.
“We know the demand is there and our longer-term plan is to bolster our UK-wide network to have infrastructure in place to refuel 15,000 gas trucks per day by 2030 which would save the UK 650,000 tonnes of carbon a year.”
