Extended Expert View: CNG in Europe - Current Trends and Future Prospects

Publication Date	December 2005
Publisher	Datamonitor
Product Type	Report
Pages	21
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	DAT00512

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Summary

Introduction

The environmental and economic advantages of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) are well documented. However, utilisation of CNG as a road fuel in Europe remains very modest with only limited penetration into the European car parc. This report examines the existing penetration of CNG as a road fuel in Europe and highlights its future prospects.

Scope

Insight into the current level of CNG penetration in Europe
Analysis of the structural and market based factors impacting CNG use
Broadly based insight into the dynamics within Europe's leading CNG markets and an overview of the factors that have promoted growth in these markets
Insight into how rising gasoline prices have increased the viability of CNG

Highlights

Globally, CNG consumption is heavily concentrated into a small number of markets. Collectively Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan and Italy account for 78% of the world's CNG powered vehicles

In Europe, other than in Italy, CNG use remains very minimal. France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Sweden are the main European CNG markets outside of Italy though even here rates of penetration into the overall car parc are minimal and represent only a fraction of the global CNG market

Europe has, or can easily put in place, the factors required to support greater utilisation of CNG. Thus, given sufficient political willingness, the wider spread use of CNG as a road fuel in Europe can be achieved with relative ease

Reasons to Purchase

Assess the likely future direction of the European CNG market
Highlight which individual markets are currently leading CNG use in Europe and why
Gain an understanding of how structural factors impact on the future development of the European CNG market

Content

Chapter 1 Executive Summary
- CNG use in Europe is currently very limited, though could be significantly
- increased with relatively little effort
Chapter 2 Introduction
- CNG technology has a number of cost and environmental advantages which are
- contributing to its continued growth globally
Chapter 3 Market Context
- There are five main factors driving CNG penetration and impacting its future
- growth in individual markets
- Around 78% of the world's 4.7 million NGVs are located in four countries
- The penetration of NGVs into the wider Car Parc elsewhere in Europe outside of
- Italy is minimal
- Outside of Italy, five markets account for around 14% of European NGVs, though
- numbers vary widely
Chapter 4 Market Trends
- The relatively well developed nature of the Italian CNG market has been driven by
- proactive Government initiatives
- The recent growth in the popularity of CNG in Germany has been driven by a
- Governmental and industry protocol developed in 2001
- Strong tax incentives and support from motor manufacturers have catalysed
- French CNG use
- CNG use in Sweden and Ireland is surprisingly high given the limited penetration of
- gas into the wider energy mix
- Natural gas plays a sufficiently strong role in the European energy mix to prevent
- supply availability being a barrier to wider CNG use
- Rising petrol prices have increased the attractiveness of CNG in Europe's leading
- CNG markets
Chapter 5 Conclusions
- The advantages of CNG are clear and as such the onus must now be on
- governments to further develop its use in Europe
- Related reports and contact details
List Of Figures
- Figure 1: Factors Catalyzing CNG Use
- Figure 2: Proportion of Global CNG Vehicles (Number of Vehicles)
- Figure 3: Penetration of NGVs into European Car Parc
- Figure 4: Global Penetration of European NGVs
- Figure 5: Italian CNG Sites and NGV Numbers
- Figure 6: German CNG Sites and NGV Numbers
- Figure 7: Gas Penetration vs Demand in Europe and the World's Three Largest
- CNG Markets
- Figure 8: Growth in Retail Fuel Prices 2000 to 2005 in Europe's Leading CNG
- Markets