Company’s Natural Gas Fueling Stations Created Carbon Offsets
Equivalent to Taking 1,500 Gasoline-Fueled Vehicles off the Road
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
As part of its commitment to help its customers minimize carbon
footprints and reduce California’s dependency on foreign fossil fuels,
Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)
fueling stations provided the equivalent of three million gallons of
gasoline to thousands of Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) customers in 2014.
The use of these vehicles resulted in a reduction of carbon emissions
equal to removing 1,500 gasoline fueled vehicles from the road.
Across 70,000 square-miles in Northern and Central California, PG&E owns
and operates 24 publicly-accessible CNG vehicle fueling stations, which
run very much like a conventional gasoline fueling station. These
stations provide fuel to more than 16 thousand vehicles:
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2,000 buses and garbage trucks;
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7,600 vans and work trucks; and
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6,400 passenger vehicles.
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“Natural gas is the cleanest burning transportation fossil fuel
available today that can economically power light-, medium- and
heavy-duty vehicles,” said Nick Stavropoulos, executive vice president,
Gas Operations. “Natural gas is a proven fuel that can improve
local air quality and reduce greenhouse emissions. We are proud to be
part of California’s efforts to be a national and world-wide
environmental leader.”
The company’s NGV customer base is diverse—CNG vehicles served by PG&E
include passenger cars and trucks owned by individual customers, taxi
cabs, local community transportation system buses, school buses, city
and county car and truck fleets, and PG&E’s own 710 passenger cars and
construction trucks.
“Fueling customer’s vehicles with natural gas is one of the many ways
PG&E supports local communities and continues to push for a broad-based
approach to limit greenhouse emissions,” said Stavropoulos. “Our program
gives customers the ability to take some of the largest polluters off
the road, replacing them with cleaner natural gas alternatives.”
Additional information regarding CNG vehicles and PG&E’s fueling service
is available at PG&E’s
NGV website and from other organizations such as NGVAmerica www.ngvamerica.org
and the California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition www.cngvc.org/.
For other alternative vehicle programs, such as Electric Vehicles, PG&E
supports please visit www.pge.com/ev.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco,
with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the
nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and
Central California. For more information, visit www.pge.com/
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Source: Pacific Gas and Electric Company