From Buses to Rockets: Clean Energy Expands RNG and LNG Fueling Partnerships Across Multiple Sectors

Biofuels producer Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has signed fueling deals with companies in a variety of sectors including agriculture, garments, waste treatment, public transit and transportation logistics.

Clean Energy Fuels signed renewable natural gas (RNG) supply agreements with milk cooperative United Dairymen of Arizona. That deal will supply 200,000 gallons of RNG to five different fleets operating natural gas trucks, many of which are equipped with the new Cummins X15N engine and haul dairy products.

Wisconsin-based truckload carrier, Paper Transport has signed RNG fueling agreements with Clean Energy, resulting in approximately 250,000 gallons of RNG annually to fuel a dozen new trucks. Clean Energy provides fuel for nearly 50 Paper Transport trucks across nine states.

Giant Oil, a fueling station operator and petroleum products vendor, has signed an RNG supply agreement with Clean Energy for its station in Cheswick, Pennsylvania. The deal will provide approximately 180,000 gallons of RNG annually. Pitt-Ohio is one of Giant Oil’s main customers fueling at the site.

Birkmire Trucking, a natural gas user operating in New York and Pennsylvania, has signed an RNG supply deal with Clean Energy for its private fueling station. The agreement will fuel 15 vehicles with an anticipated 100,000 gallons of RNG annually.

Vestis, a uniform company, has signed an agreement with Clean Energy to fuel 12 medium-duty trucks with RNG at Clean Energy stations. The vehicles will operate in Texas and California.

Clean Energy has entered a new RNG supply and station upgrade agreement with the Atlantic City Jitney Association and extended a 15-year partnership. The deal includes an upgrade of their existing natural gas station to support 125 new RNG shuttle buses with an estimated 300,000 gallons annually. Their fleet, which operates a total of 190 RNG shuttle buses, serves as Atlantic City’s emergency response fleet during hurricanes.

Republic Services is advancing its RNG fueling portfolio with new station builds and upgrades in Colorado and Nevada. In Fort Collins and Parker, CO, Clean Energy has completed two new fueling stations designed to support 135 RNG trucks and will supply an anticipated 275,000 gallons.

Republic Services is also expanding its RNG fleet in North Las Vegas, NV, with a major station upgrade adding 41 new fueling stalls. 15 new trucks will be added in the first year, and Clean Energy will continue supplying RNG.

USA Hauling & Recycling has renewed its RNG supply contract with Clean Energy for 2.5 million gallons of RNG annually to fuel 150 refuse vehicles and other third-party trucking fleets operating throughout Connecticut. Clean Energy will also build its fifth station in South Windsor, CT, a private time-fill station, designed to fuel 40 additional RNG refuse trucks.

Clean Energy has signed an RNG supply agreement with Ecotech Waste Logistics, a solid waste hauler based in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The deal will provide about 300,000 gallons of RNG annually to fuel 30 vehicles in the company’s fleet.

Stoke Space, a company specializing in reusable rockets, has entered into a new agreement with Clean Energy for the supply of 120,000 gallons of high-purity LNG. The fuel will be used for rocket engine testing which requires methane for accurate and effective testing.

Liquified natural gas (LNG) is natural gas chilled to liquify it and make it stable for transporting.

Apollo Energy Resources, a power generation company, has signed a new bulk LNG fueling agreement with Clean Energy for 480,000 gallons to support the transportation of materials critical to advanced energy solutions. Clean Energy owns and operates two LNG plants in California and Texas which supply bulk LNG to many customers from marine to energy exploration to space companies.