Posted on 09/29/2008 6:01:21 AM PDT by shove_it
Now Provides Natural Gas Fueling at 20 US Airports
SEAL BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq:CLNE - News) will own, operate and supply fuel for new compressed natural gas (CNG) public access stations to support airport operations in Atlanta and Oklahoma City.
In the Atlanta area, the City of College Park, Georgia, contracted with Clean Energy to design, construct and manage a public access CNG fueling station on City-owned property located less than a mile from the entrance to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, among the busiest in the world. The facility is designed to serve a range of light, medium and heavy duty vehicles, including regional public transit buses, municipal vehicles, refuse hauling trucks, and airport parking, hotel, and employee CNG shuttle buses. The station will open in two weeks.
In Oklahoma City, Will Rogers World Airport officials contracted with Clean Energy to build and manage a large-scale public access CNG fuel station. Located on airport property, the new facility will serve — in addition to CNG-powered airport transit and shuttle vehicles — a growing number of CNG fleets in the area. The station will begin construction in two weeks.
Both stations will fuel high volume fleet applications, including hotel, parking, shared ride shuttles and transit buses.
James Harger, Clean Energy Senior Vice President, said, “We are delighted to have this opportunity to partner with the City of College Park and with Will Rogers World Airport to make these new CNG stations a reality. The facilities will significantly boost local efforts to curtail air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, they will contribute to reductions in transportation operating costs.”
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So, when will I be able to go to the local Conoco and fill up with CNG?
Clean Energy is the largest provider of vehicular natural gas (CNG and LNG) in North America.
Clean Energy dedicated its first LNG plant to the company’s founder, Boone Pickens, in May 2006.
http://www.cleanenergyfuels.com/main.html
Oklahoma has quite a few public CNG filling stations already.
http://afdc.energy.gov/afdc/progs/ind_state.php/OK/CNG
Boone bought back most of the stock that his wife sold. I’ll bet he was POed when she did that.
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/080925/clne8-k.html
Does your vehicle have a CNG fuel tank? If "no," then reach for your wallet.
Oh, don't forget all the other mods you'll need. I'm sure Boone Pickens has explained all that.
A CNG conversion for a standard personal vehicle is very expensive.........
Supply and demand.
DRILL DRILL DRILL!!
$8,000 and up, sometimes way up.
http://www.transecoenergy.com/pages/CNG_Conversions.htm
Look for T.Boone to lobby for government incentives.
You might as well get one then. You will be paying for it anyways.
WOW such great news
A non-carbon fuel!
algore will so be happy.
(/S)
Of course the first step in the process is finding a CNG vehicle, and if you live in a state like mine surrounded by states with no CNG infrastructure, you ain’t going anywhere in a CNG vehicle. Mileage bad, relative mpg about 35, cng cheaper at the moment, but then demand isn’t to that point yet. California Utah and AZ are the big western three for CNG. Pesonally at this time, it is not even to the level of ethanol and until a better source than corn is found, ethanol isn’t going anywhere either. If I remember there are but 150,000 CNG vehicles in the US. Time and a big lets see where this is going are the order of the day for CNG.
He's already "greased the skids" in the Texas Legislature. All sorts of new legislation has been passed this year that benefits the Pickens wind farm and water municipality plans......
A non-carbon fuel!
Surely you are not under the Pelosi impression that CNG is anything other than a so called fossil fuel?
Natural Gas is mostly Methane, a little Ethane and a few others.
Methane = CH4
Ethane = C2H6
Guess what the C is?
Yeah, BusinessWeek did a fairly good article a month or so ago on Pickens' "behind the scenes" work with the Texas Legislature and how his water municipality and wind farms are tied together, including Pickens' water municipality gaining the right of eminent domain and the Texas Legislature allowing, for the first time, transmission lines to be piggybacked onto water line corridors. Similar articles have run in the Wichita Falls, Dallas and Austin news papers recently. It pays to have friends in high places, I suppose.
FWIW, a similar, although much, much smaller, private "peak power generation" venture, similar to TVA's Raccoon Mountain plant near Chattanooga, was tried here in SE Tennessee about 10 years ago. My house and land would have fallen under one of the project's 11, TWO THOUSAND FOOT WIDE power line corridors. In exchange for a promised $1 million grant to the local skool system, our local politico's attempted to grant the right of eminent domain to a private, for profit company. The attempt failed because not only was the project not feasible (according to TVA who had already studied it in great detail), but also because it was an attempt to grab some very valuable real estate. A couple of my local county commissioners approved the plan without even knowing their own homes and land would be subject to seizure under the plan. We were able to beat it back with facts in the US District Court in Chattanooga, and with absolutely no help from our then Congresscritter and fence rider, Zach Wamp (RINO), but then again, that was before the Kelo decision.....
BTW, did you have any luck getting a retraction out of BusinessWeek?
Now you are three steps behind the news.
First, you didn't know about the project.
Second, you didn't know about the PUC announcing the first leg of the project.
And now third, you didn't know that the first bid award will be in 60 days.
Of course it will be done incrementally, but to get some idea of the scope and size, the consortium project is a good place to start.
Look at the map, see if you can find Roberts County, then see if you can find Boone's windfarm.
Keep in mind, this doesn't include the SW Texas CREZs.
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