The Department of Transportation Thursday announced the start of service at a Compressed Natural Gas fueling station at the Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority facility in Allentown.
The station is one of the 29 CNB fueling stations planned as part of a Public Private Partnership initiative.
As part of the conversion in the Lehigh Valley, LANTA will convert 76 buses to CNG. The authority estimates saving more than $750,000 annually based on current diesel costs and their diesel usage of roughly 850,000 gallons per year. LANTA now has 16 CNG buses.
Through the $84.5 million statewide P3 project, Trillium is designing, building, financing and will operate and maintain CNG fueling stations at 29 public transit agency sites through a 20-year P3 agreement.
Other stations will be constructed over the next five years, and Trillium is also making CNG-related upgrades to existing transit maintenance facilities.
PennDOT’s overall P3 project includes CNG fueling accessible to the public at six transit agency sites, with the option to add to sites in the future.
PennDOT will receive a 15 percent royalty, excluding taxes, for each gallon of fuel sold to the public at public sites, which will be used to support the cost of the project.
Using the P3 procurement mechanism allows PennDOT to install the fueling stations faster than if a traditional procurement mechanism were used for each site, resulting in significant estimated capital cost savings of more than $46 million.
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