Pensacola and Emerald Coast Utilities Authority Open CNG Fueling Station for Fleet Vehicles
PENSACOLA, FL - The City and utility plan to fuel 80 of their CNG fleet vehicles at the station. The station has four fast-fill hoses and 90 time-fill dispensers.
by Staff
October 10, 2012
The new CNG station has four fast-fill hoses and 90 time-fill dispensers.
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The new CNG station has four fast-fill hoses and 90 time-fill dispensers.
PENSACOLA, FL – The City of Pensacola, Fla., and the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (ECUA) have opened a new compressed natural gas fueling station. The City and utility plan to fuel 80 of their CNG fleet vehicles at the station. CNG at the station is priced at $2.05 per gallon equivalent. The station has four fast-fill hoses and 90 time-fill dispensers for overnight fueling.
According to the City, Pensacola, its natural gas utility Pensacola Energy, and the ECUA partnered to build the $1.8 million station at the utility’s sanitation facility. These organizations contracted with Zeit Energy of Dallas for the project.
The utility’s Executive Director Steve Sorrell said ECUA is projecting savings of $350,000 or more in maintenance and about $900,000 in fuel savings.
For the fuel itself, ECUA finalized a 10-year agreement with Pensacola Energy. The company will operate and maintain the station, and ECUA will pay a monthly transportation charge and an indexed price-per-diesel-gallon equivalent of CNG fuel that ECUA vehicles will use.
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