Clean Energy to Build New CNG Stations and Provide More Natural Gas

Clean Energy announced that it will construct new CNG stations for transit agencies, a school district, and others, and Clean Energy also announced additional fueling agreements within the refuse, trucking, and bulk fuel market segments.

In transit, the Nassua Inter-County Express (NICE) in New York has awarded Clean Energy the contract to design, build, operate and maintain a new CNG station that upon completion will replace its existing Mitchel Field station, and operate and maintain the existing CNG stations. The five-year contract valued at just over $13 million will extend the partnership between NICE and Clean Energy and will support a fleet of over 200 CNG buses. Clean Energy currently supports another 100 CNG buses at an additional station and provides a total of 4.6 million GGEs of CNG annually for the NICE bus fleet. Completion of the new station is expected for summer 2017.

Clean Energy has also been contracted by W.M. Schlosser Co. to build a fast-fill CNG station at a new bus depot being constructed for Arlington Transit (ART), which will initially deploy 25 new CNG transit buses that are expected to consume 225,000 DGEs of CNG a year. ART has plans to grow the fleet to 75 CNG buses.

The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) ordered an additional 80 buses that will fuel at a Clean Energy operated and maintained station, which is expected to be an incremental 700,000 DGEs of CNG annually.

In school transportation, the North Kansas City School District will replace 124 school buses with new CNG buses with an option to purchase an additional 30 over the next 10 years. Clean Energy will construct a new station that includes fast-fill and time-fill fueling options using two Clean Energy Compression (CEC) compressors as well as modifying a maintenance facility to facilitate CNG buses. The 15-year contact will be funded through financing secured by the District and is a joint-partnership between the North Kansas City School District, Clean Energy and Midwest Bus Sales, based in Bonner Springs, Kansas, which will supply the District’s new CNG school buses. This transition for the 20,000-student School District will begin for the 2016 school year.

In trucking, Raven Transport has ordered an additional 20 LNG trucks to add to their fleet of 187 LNG trucks fueling with Clean Energy. The new trucks will fuel at Clean Energy stations in the southeast U.S. and are expected to consume 420,000 DGEs of LNG annually.

Clean Energy further expanded its fueling partnership with Dart Trucking as it redeploys 25 CNG trucks to new Clean Energy stations in Ohio and Missouri. Clean Energy will open five additional stations for the fleet that is expected to consume 450,000 DGEs a year.

Bimbo Bakeries, currently fueling a fleet of CNG trucks at a Clean Energy station in Sacramento, California, will deploy nine additional CNG trucks in Pennsylvania that are expected to consume over 40,000 DGEs a year.

Manhattan Beer Distributers signed a new agreement to fuel 20 CNG trucks at multiple Clean Energy stations in New York, consuming an expected 160,000 DGEs annually.

Off Spec Solutions will begin fueling 25 LNG trucks at several Clean Energy stations in the southwest U.S. and are expected to consume 250,000 DGEs a year.

Schmidt Liquid Transport will initially deploy 10 CNG trucks and fuel at the recently opened Clean Energy station in North Platte, Nebraska. These trucks are expected to consume 180,000 DGEs a year and Schmidt has plans to increase its CNG fleet.

Central Freight and Clean Energy expanded their fueling partnership with an additional 21 trucks fueling at Clean Energy’s Love Field station in Dallas and are forecasted to consume 149,000 DGEs of CNG annually.

Modern Transportation signed a new fuel agreement that will expand an existing partnership with over 20 CNG and LNG trucks which are being deployed in Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Colorado. The new trucks are expected to consume in excess of 400,000 DGEs of fuel a year.

In refuse, Republic Services continues to expand its already significant partnership with Clean Energy with a recent operations and maintenance agreement for a station that fuels 75 refuse trucks in Huntington Beach, California, which are expected to consume 600,000 DGEs of CNG a year. Garden City Sanitation in Santa Clara, California, signed an operations and maintenance agreement that will serve 45 refuse trucks that consume 350,000 DGEs a year.

The City of Spokane, Washington, will begin fueling 20 solid waste trucks at a recently opened CNG station that was designed and equipped by Clean Energy. The City plans to add approximately 10 trucks per year with as many as 100 eventually being fueled at the station. Each truck is expected to consume 11,500 DGEs annually.

In bulk fuel sales, PG&E signed a bulk fuel sales contract to receive over 500,000 gallons of LNG from Clean Energy’s Boron plant in July and another 1 million gallons of LNG in August for a pipeline integrity testing program.

Over the last four months, Clean Energy has expanded its America Natural Gas Highway of truck-friendly stations with openings in Midway, Ocala and Orlando, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Eden, North Carolina; Pearl, Mississippi; Knoxville, Texas; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Fort Chiswell and Ruther Glen, Virginia; Perris, California, Lake Havasu, Aarizona; Vandalia, Ohio; and Kansas City, Kansas. This brings the total to 19 Clean Energy stations opened in 2015 which can accommodate a heavy-duty truck.