Biogas from wastewater has potential to replace 29% annual diesel consumed in the State
The California Energy Commission has approved two awards that leverage more than $2.3 million in state funding with $3.37 million in private funds. The projects will reduce petroleum use, cut pollution and provide jobs by demonstrating the possibilities of installing a natural [...]
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Energy Commission Awards Funds for Alternative Fuel Projects for California
August 31, 2010 – 12:04 am
USA, Sacramento
Ryder Awaits First 70 CNG Trucks
August 8, 2010 – 2:28 am
USA, Miami FL
Ryder System, Inc., a global transport and supply chain management business, and the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) have moved into implementation phase on the first of its kind stimulus-funded natural gas truck leasing and rental project in Southern California. With the contracts in place, Ryder will soon purchase the first 70 LNG/CNG [...]
Illinois State Funding Goes to Pace Bus for Green Buses
July 24, 2010 – 11:44 pm
USA, Arlington Heights IL
The State of Illinois has released roughly $32 million of capital funding to Pace, the suburban bus division of the regional transport authority, which will help the agency to move forward with efforts to test green technology buses and paratransit vehicles such as compressed natural gas (CNG) and hybrids, and carry out other transit projects. [...]
New Illinois MetroLINK Facility Includes Natural Gas Fuelling
July 23, 2010 – 12:45 pm
USA, Moline IL
Long struggling for space, Rock Island in the US State of Illinois is celebrating the approval of $15 million in funding to build a new MetroLINK Transit Maintenance Facility. From a fleet of 94 buses half are natural gas vehicles, which have had to be refueled off-site. The 140,000-square-foot facility will include fueling [...]
Tulsa Transit Plans CNG Fuelling Station in Readiness for Replacement Fleet
June 1, 2010 – 9:54 pm
USA, Tulsa OK
US company Trillium USA, based in Utah is to build a compressed natural gas filling station in Oklahoma for Tulsa Transit, in readiness for stimulus-funded, CNG-powered buses which will start arriving at the end of the year, reports local news agency Tulsa World. Construction is to commence this summer. The $2.1 million cost of the [...]
EOIs Sought for Preliminary Study for UK Heavy Goods Biomethane Trials
May 27, 2010 – 11:28 am
United Kingdom
The British Government set aside up to £3.5m (approx. USD 5m) in its budget for the coming financial year to support real-world demonstration trials of heavy goods vehicles capable of running on biomethane produced from waste. The study is now underway. The sum will fund up to six demonstration projects and will cover ‘mobile [...]
SCAQMD Funds 96 CNG School Buses
May 10, 2010 – 10:35 am
USA, Diamond Bar CA
In one of its largest school bus funding awards, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has awarded $16.6 million to help school districts replace older diesel school buses with new, cleaner-burning compressed natural gas buses. The funds will allow six school districts in the Southland to replace a total of 96 pre-1987 diesel [...]
US Federal Clean Fuel and Tigger Funding Applications Open
April 21, 2010 – 12:42 pm
USA
The US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) plans to make discretionary funding available under the Clean Fuel Grant Program and the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) Program. The total amount of funding is expected to be $81.2 million for the Clean Fuel Grant Program and $75 million for TIGGER. The purpose of [...]
Fuel Station Upgrades to Support US’s Largest Natural Gas-Powered Bus Fleet
April 12, 2010 – 2:59 am
USA, Seal Beach CA
Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a natural gas (CNG and LNG) supplier for transportation in North America, has secured contracts totaling nearly $8.4 million from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to upgrade four of Metro’s compressed natural gas (CNG) bus fueling stations. Metro currently deploys America’s largest CNG-powered transit bus fleet. Metro’s 2,506 [...]
Bangladesh NGV Operators Stand to Benefit from ADB Loan for Gas Network Expansion
March 29, 2010 – 12:33 am
Bangladesh
The approval of loans to the value of $266 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help Bangladesh address natural gas supply constraints in a bid to spur economic growth and cut poverty could have far-reaching benefits for the country’s natural gas vehicle industry. “This project will address priority supply and network constraints to [...]
Natural Gas Buses for Atlanta Coming On Line
March 6, 2010 – 11:34 pm
Source: pbaonline
USA, Atlanta GA
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority is rolling out new CNG buses, one at a time, as part of its policy to replace obsolete stock with new environmentally friendly buses. According to a report by pbaonline that policy has set a limit of twelve years or 500,000 miles, whichever comes first. 18 of the new [...]
Ohio Alternative Fuel Program ($29M) Cleared to Go
February 24, 2010 – 12:25 pm
USA, Ohio
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has cleared Clean Fuels Ohio to begin its work with the Ohio Advanced Transportation Partnership (OATP), reports Green Car Congress. The project will carry out more than $29 million in alternative fuel vehicle and infrastructure projects—the largest single investment in advanced transportation energy infrastructure and vehicle technology in the [...]
Stimulus Funds to Benefit Nebraska NGVs
February 19, 2010 – 11:06 am
Source: USA, Nebraska
The US State of Nebraska is set to increase both natural gas infrastructure and natural gas vehicle numbers, thanks to a $650,ooo grant proposal being considered by the Nebraska Environmental Trust. In recognition of the need to stimulate supply and demand if the State is to take advantage of the environmental and economical advantages of [...]
US EPA Seeks RFPs for 2010 Methane Projects
February 12, 2010 – 1:26 pm
Deadline extended to 1:00 p.m. EDT on 29 July 2010.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Methane to Markets Partnership has issued a major request for proposals (RFP) to fund projects and activities that advance cost-effective, near-term methane recovery and use as a clean energy source. The solicitation — RFP #: EPA-OAR-CCD-10-02-03: “Activities that Advance [...]
Quebec Receives Govt Funding for Biogas Waste-to-Fuel Project
February 12, 2010 – 1:14 pm
Canada, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec
A green infrastructure project in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, funded on a cost-sharing basis by the Canadian Government, will see the construction of a system to treat organic waste and convert it to biogas, a renewable fuel. This project operates under an agreement-in-principle undertaken with the Government of Quebec relating to the $1 billion federal Green [...]
