Plans for a biogas fuelling station are tipped to get the go-ahead next week.
Business Post revealed earlier this year that a plan had been submitted for a Bio-CNG gas fuelling facility at Parc Bryn Cegin in Bangor to serve fleets of specially adapted HGVs.
The regeneration site has remained empty despite first being proposed in 2000 and European cash paying for major infrastructure works in 2005.
The application is from CNG Fuels Ltd, operators of bio-compressed natural gas (Bio-CNG) refuelling infrastructure who have a network of stations across the 海角视频. Bio-CNG is a renewable energy source produced from food waste.
They want take on plot C1 on the park and say it will help to attract other businesses to Parc Bryn Cegin.
Planning officers have now recommended the scheme is approved.
They said: "The proposal is for the provision of a compressed natural bio-gas fuel facility for vehicles on an idle site within the Bryn Cegin industrial estate. As a result of the above assessment which refers to all national and local planning policies and material planning matters, it is considered that the proposal is acceptable and complies with the requirements of the relevant policies and guidance."
The planning committee at Gwynedd council will meet on Monday to discuss the application.
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A planning statement said: “This application proposes a new Bio-CNG gas fuelling station that will provide important refuelling infrastructure for local logistics and distribution operators, allowing the opportunity to convert their vehicle fleets from diesel to Bio-CNG powered vehicles.
“The development will allow existing local business and those due to locate at Parc Bryn Cegin in the near future, the opportunity to invest in Bio-CNG powered vehicles instead of diesel and benefit from the 100% renewable fuel with significant reductions in CO2, NOx and noise emissions over diesel engine vehicles
“Typically, Bio-CNG refuelling stations are connected to a nearby gas distribution pipeline. Gas is drawn out of the pipeline via on-site compressors. Once compressed, the gas is stored in ground storage modules ready to be dispensed into adapted vehicles.”
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