Clean Energy Opens World’s Largest LNG/CNG Truck Fueling Station At Long Beach/Los Angeles Ports Complex to Support Clean A...
June 30 2009 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
The world�s largest natural gas truck fueling station, designed
and built by Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE), is now open
for business on a 2.9-acre site adjacent to the Ports of Long Beach
and Los Angeles.
The new public access station, configured to fuel trucks on a
24/7 basis, features two 25,000-gallon liquefied natural gas (LNG)
storage tanks, six LNG dispensers, and two compressed natural gas
(CNG) dispensers. The Clean Energy station is located on property
leased from the Port of Long Beach at Anaheim and I streets. It is
specifically designed to support the goals of the San Pedro Bay
Ports� Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) and Clean Truck programs.
Andrew Littlefair, Clean Energy President and CEO, said, �Clean
Energy is proud to support the ports and their quest for cleaner
air and a clean fuel future by building this landmark LNG/CNG truck
fueling station that can provide fuel for several hundred natural
gas Port trucks daily.�
He added, �We have seen demand for LNG and CNG fuel grow
significantly as major trucking companies secure and deploy new
natural gas-powered trucks at the ports. As demand for the
environmentally-friendly fuel continues to increase, Clean Energy
plans to add 50,000 gallons of fuel storage to the new station�s
current capacity, as well as four more LNG/CNG fueling lanes.�
The Ports� CAAP and Clean Truck programs call for the retirement
or conversion of old diesel trucks entering the ports in favor of
new diesel and alternative fuel (natural gas) trucks. Natural gas
vehicle fuel provides lower emissions than gasoline and diesel,
including up to a 23% reduction in greenhouse gases in medium- and
heavy-duty applications and up to 30% reductions for light-duty
vehicles. The domestic natural gas used by the trucks also reduces
America�s dependence on imported oil.
The new station is the second that Clean Energy has opened in
the area to serve port drayage trucks. The first, operational since
December 2007, is located near the ports at Southern Counties
Express, a major port-trucking firm. This station currently
supplies approximately 10,000 LNG gallons of fuel on a daily
basis.
Clean Energy (Nasdaq: CLNE) is the leading provider of
natural gas (CNG and LNG) for transportation in North America. It
has a broad customer base in the refuse, transit, ports, shuttle,
taxi, trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets, fueling more
than 17,200 vehicles at 184 strategic locations across the United
States and Canada. Clean Energy owns and operates two LNG
production plants, one in Willis, TX and one in Boron, CA, with
combined capacity of 260,000 LNG gallons per day and designed to
expand to 340,000 LNG gallons per day as demand increases. It also
owns and operates a landfill gas facility in Dallas, TX that
produces renewable methane gas or biogas for delivery in the
nation�s gas pipeline network. Please visit
www.cleanenergyfuels.com
Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions,
including statements about the number of anticipated natural gas
trucks that are anticipated to be in service at the Ports and
customers at the station and the amount of fuel they might consume.
Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially
from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a
result of several factors including the availability of funding to
support the purchase of natural gas trucks, the availability of
natural gas trucks, the availability of other natural gas stations
in the area, the ultimate number of natural gas trucks purchased
and the economic viability of a natural gas truck solution. The
forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date of
this press release and the company undertakes no obligation to
publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect
subsequent events or circumstances.
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