Fighting against climate change requires everyone's involvement and collaboration. Undoubtedly, companies play an essential role when it comes to reducing the carbon footprint and ensuring the sustainability of our planet. Cepsa is one of the companies that has taken on these challenges with a series of innovative solutions, such as the use of second-generation biofuels, aimed at becoming a much cleaner source of energy for maritime, land and air transport.
These second generation biofuels, made from organic waste such as used cooking oils, agricultural or livestock waste or forest biomass, among others, are an ideal solution to promote the circular economy, accelerate the energy transition and decarbonization, since they allow reduce up to 90% CO2 emissions during the entire life cycle, compared to fossil fuels. In addition, they contribute to increasing the security of supply and energy independence in Spain and Europe and are immediately applicable.
The energy company has already taken its first steps to make this sustainable purpose a reality. In this sense, at the end of last year it successfully carried out the first test in Spain with biofuel produced from used oils in one of the ships used by the company, the Montestena, owned by Ibaizabal, during several weeks of navigation. With this, it has reinforced its position as a benchmark for the energy transition and national leader in the supply of energy to maritime transport, a market in which it has more than 90 years of experience and a presence in more than 60 ports in Spain.
Also, in its commitment to offer increasingly sustainable solutions to its customers and to European ports, it has recently added a hybrid electric-diesel supply vessel to its fleet that already operates in Algeciras. This vessel, the first of its kind to supply marine fuels in Europe, allows fuel consumption to be reduced by 30% and greenhouse gas emissions by more than 35% compared to a conventional vessel, which prevents the annual release of more of 2000 tons of CO2. Furthermore, when she is docked in port, she does not generate emissions.
These advances are part of Cepsa's 2030 strategic plan, called Positive Motion, to promote the decarbonisation of heavy transport (maritime, air and road) through the production of green molecules (above all, biofuels and green hydrogen) and the sustainable mobility. Its objective for 2030 is to lead the manufacture of biofuels in Spain and Portugal, with a production capacity of 2.5 million tons that allows it to go beyond zero net emissions, expanding the positive impact on its customers and helping them in their decarbonization .
