Clean Energy Opens Latest Florida Compressed Natural Gas Station for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority
HART is the first transit agency in
HART awarded Clean Energy the contract to design, build, operate and maintain the new CNG fueling station to support their investment in a cleaner and more cost-effective bus fleet. The project entailed the construction of a CNG fueling station plus modification of existing maintenance facilities and fuel lanes. The modifications were engineered and implemented by Clean Energy's Facility Modification Services team.
"We expect our new natural gas vehicles to allow people to continue to
commute in comfort and at the same time improve our air quality," said
Over the coming weeks, HART plans to deploy 28 new CNG vans to replace its diesel-powered models. Early next year, HART expects to put 22 new CNG buses in service as its diesel buses are retired from service. By the end of 2015, HART expects a total of 59 CNG vehicles to be in service.
Clean Energy expects this growing fleet to consume approximately 230,000
DGEs of CNG in year-one of operation and approximately 725,000 DGEs
annually by 2018. Once fully-deployed, the fleet is forecasted to reduce
HART's greenhouse gas emissions by 1,738 metric tons per year, the
equivalent of removing 360 passenger cars from the road annually. In
addition to the new HART facility, Clean Energy also operates a public
CNG station at the
"HART has shown incredible leadership in
Natural
gas fuel costs up to
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CNG vehicles and buses expected to be deployed by HART and the amount of
CNG anticipated to be consumed by HART. Actual results and the timing of
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