January 2022
Today, January 28, Flens' first biogas filling station was inaugurated, enabling the municipality to buy climate-friendly biogas cars, and the hope is that private individuals and companies will also follow suit. We are pleased to have received the repeated confidence of Sörmlands Vatten och Avlopp to, after the station in Katrineholm, also deliver this subsidiary station with a public dispenser and two mobile gas storage facilities that enable fossil-free refueling with locally produced biogas in Flens municipality.
In the invitation to the inauguration, BioDriv Öst writes that the decision to invest in a biogas filling station was already taken in 2018. With the help of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's Klimatklivet grant, Flens municipality then continued to work with Sörmland Vatten to make the filling station a reality. "The new biogas filling station is an important piece of the puzzle in the work to convert to a fossil-independent vehicle fleet. The location of the filling station makes it easier to drive on a renewable locally produced fuel throughout the county of Sörmland, which creates many social benefits and contributes to a more attractive region. The transition to, among other things, electric vehicles has already begun and biogas vehicles continue to be important to be able to switch faster and more", says Björn Isaksson, project manager for Fossil Free 2030 and fuel strategist at the collaboration organization BioDriv Öst.
The opening invitation also quotes Fredrik Karlsson of Flens Glas, a local entrepreneur who has chosen to invest in biogas vehicles. "I chose biogas because it is a good choice for the environment and I read that they would open a filling station. I probably wouldn't have chosen to buy a biogas vehicle if it wasn't possible to refuel in Flen," says Fredrik, who hopes that more entrepreneurs will choose to switch to biogas.
Here is also a post on SR about the new biogas station in Flen.