Utilities & Alt Fuels

Alternative Fuels in the Utility Industry – Tennessee & BeyondJonathan Overly, Director – ETCleanFuelsKUB Environmental Roundtable – 4/27/10

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Ah, the good old days…

Who is ETCleanFuels?

• Designated member of U.S. DOE “Clean Cities” Program

• 8-yr old nonprofit in East TN• Focused on transportation sector change:

Diversify away from petroleum alone and use less!• Meetings; direct fleet & fuel supplier assistance; workshops;

presentations to the commercial/industrial/government community and to schools; multiple newsletters

• GRANTS – Writing, and building submission partners

Middle TNAtha Comiskey

West TN????? ???????

TN Clean Southeastern Fuels Fix Advisor www.FuelsFix.com

Two ETCleanFuels Publications

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Tennessee Utilities

MLGW – CNG, B20(?) NES – E85 KUB – CNG, E85, B5, hybrids (small + large), NEV EPB – Propane(-), B20, E85(+) Sevier County (SCUD) – Propane McMinnville Electric – B20

{& B100 generator project} Others??Others??

PREVIOUSLY… Biodiesel Use – BVU, Cleveland Util.,

others in East Tennessee

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Clean Cities Coalition -- Connected

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Clean Cities Coalition – Responses in One Day!

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Clean Cities – “and the survey says…”

PG&E (CA) – Over 1,000 CNG vehicles, EVs Dominion Resources (VA) – B20, PHEVs (Volts coming!) National Grid (NY) – 350+ NGVs; operate public station in

Providence, RI, too; biodiesel as well Questar (Utah) – Over 500 NGVs in the state AEP (OH) – biodiesel, E85, hybrid trucks/cars, 3 Prius PHEVs Georgia Power – B20, E85, hybrids, PHEVs (buckets)

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Clean Cities – “and the survey says…”

PG&E (CA) – Over 1,000 CNG vehicles, EVs Dominion Resources (VA) – B20, PHEVs (Volts coming!) National Grid (NY) – 350+ NGVs; operate public station in

Providence, RI, too; biodiesel as well Questar (Utah) – Over 500 NGVs in the state AEP (OH) – biodiesel, E85, hybrid trucks/cars, 3 Prius PHEVs Georgia Power – B20, E85, hybrids, PHEVs (buckets)

All these responses are just the

ones we received within one

day from other Clean Cities

coordinators! There are likely

MANY more utilities using alt

fuels… this is just a starter list!

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Recently Funded…

Utility Involvement in FY’09 Clean Cities $300M ARRA Projects - NYSERDA – $13.3M – 2 utilities part of large group that will put CNG,

LPG, EV and hybrid vehicles and infrastructure throughout the state Another 3-4 projects that are involving utilities for different alt fuels

FY’09 Non-ARRA Utility Involvement in the Clean Cities “Petroleum Reduction Technology Projects” - Questar Gas (Utah) – 4 new public CNG stations Oklahoma Natural Gas – More Tulsa NGVs & education Southern CA Gas Co. – CNG dispensers for Temecula Unified Schools

Also, FY‘09 $300 million eTec/Nissan Trans. Electrification work – Lots of utilities will be working on Evs and electric infrastructure!

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Go, instead, where there is no path

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