Clean Energy gets Chevron funds for RNG vehicles in California
California's Clean Energy Fuels announced on December 16 its Adopt-a-Port programme, which funds the purchase of heavy-duty trucks that run on renewable natural gas (RNG), had secured $28mn in financing from Chevron.
Adopt-a-Port provides the funds to trucking companies operating in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. One firm to make use of the programme is Pacific Green Trucking, which signed a fuelling agreement with Clean Energy for 1mn gallons of RNG to fuel 61 new trucks.
“RNG is the most immediate and cost-efficient way to make the necessary environmental changes for the trucking industry,” Vicente Zarate, the president of Pacific Green Trucking, commented.
Other participants include NGL Logistics, TDS Logistics, Mortimer & Wallace, Pacific 9, Cota Capital American Pacific Forwarders, Arete Logistics, Paul Suh, Sang’s Express, Pacifica Trucks, Pacific Expressway, Yanxiu Li, IML Transport, Supra National Express and Atlas Marine.
“So far, over 200 heavy-duty trucks have been contracted through the programme and over 400 more are being processed, which will help to clean the air in and around the ports and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” Clean Energy stated.
Alongside the Chevron financing, Clean Energy announced a number of refuelling station upgrades and expansions for its clients across the US and in Canada, as well as fuel contracts representing an estimated 44.3mn gallons of RNG and compressed natural gas.
Outside of California, Clean Energy broke ground in November on an RNG facility in Texas, the first product of a joint venture with French major TotalEnergies. Clean Energy Fuels estimates the facility will be able to produce around 1.1mn gallons (4,163 m3) annually of methane sourced from the manure of some 7,500 dairy cows.
Clean Energy Fuels and BP, meanwhile, said they can expect to produce more than 25,000 m3 of RNG annually from the waste from more than 30,000 cows on the state's dairy farms.