Clean Energy Makes Headway In Road to Natural Gas
by Jana Ritter - Published: 8/06/2013Clean Energy Fuels released its ROAD TO NATURAL GAS report, with major announcements of its progress in a growing portfolio of natural gas fuel customers. Still leading the natural gas transition, Clean Energy has struck many recent deals in transit, trucking and now expands to manufacturing.
Fox Transportation has signed Clean Energy's Largest Single Order and Deployment of Medium-Duty CNG Trucks for Delivery Services in the United States. The fueling agreement plans to deploy over 100 CNG trucks over the next several months, which will fuel at Clean Energy stations throughout Southern California. Once fully deployed, the fleet is expected to consume approximately 600,000 diesel-gallons-equivalent of CNG fuel per year. The fleet is also anticipated to make approximately 900,000 deliveries annually to hospitals throughout California, traveling over five million miles per year.
LA Metro has also signed with Clean Energy in a 10-year Deal to Solidify Clean Energy as their Exclusive CNG Fuel Partner for the Nation's Largest Clean Air Fleet. Not only did the deal approve a 10-year compressed natural gas (CNG) station operation and maintenance contract with Clean Energy for four of LA Metro's CNG bus fueling stations, Clean Energy will continue to operate and maintain all of the Agency's 10 CNG bus fueling stations as well as an 11th station currently under construction by Clean Energy.
Clean Energy anticipates compressing approximately 15 million gallons of natural gas annually for the next 10 years to serve the four stations named in this contract. Additionally, Clean Energy expects to continue to compress approximately 21 million gallons of natural gas annually for LA Metro's additional stations.
In a first of its kind fuel deal with NG Advantage, Clean Energy will bring natural gas to manufacturing and other energy intensive users beyond the pipeline. The 10-year deal expects to construct a new natural gas compression facility in central New Hampshire to expand reach to manufacturing and other energy-intensive customers not on a natural gas pipeline throughout New England and Eastern New York. Operated by Clean Energy, the facility is intended to provide a minimum of 10-million gasoline-gallons-equivalent of CNG per year. This potentially represents more than double the CNG fuel volume supplied by Clean Energy's highest-volume CNG station.
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. is the largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America. They build and operate compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations; manufacture CNG and LNG equipment and technologies for themselves and other companies and develop renewable natural gas (RNG) production facilities.