Clean Energy Fuels adds to RNG fueling network

California-based Clean Energy Fuels (CEF) said February 26 it had added to its North American network of more than 600 renewable natural gas (RNG) fueling stations with two facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas.

One station is located in North Fort Worth, near the Alliance and Dallas-Fort Worth airports, while the other is in South Dallas, close to the I-45, I-35 and I-20 interstate highways near Lancaster.

“The Dallas-Fort Worth area is already one of the biggest transportation hubs in the country and it is only getting bigger,” said Chad Lindholm, CEF’s senior vice president of sales. “These two new stations will provide heavy-duty truck fleets with the ease of fueling with RNG, which is becoming more recognised as the cleanest, most affordable, and readily available alternative fuel for the transportation market.”

In addition to supporting heavy-duty truck fleets, the two new stations can support some 700 Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses, hundreds of sanitation trucks, airport shuttles and other vehicles that support airports in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and that run on RNG.

The two stations open at a time when RNG is becoming a fuel that many fleets are embracing to meet their carbon emissions reduction goals. Cummins is expected to make its new X15N engine for heavy duty trucks available for commercial deployment later this year. The engine is already being tested by some of the largest and most demanding fleets in the US, including Walmart, Federal Express and UPS.