KCFC members attended the spring membership meeting on March 14 at the Irish Rover in Louisville. Here the coalition discussed upcoming projects for the spring, as well as new business and initiatives among members. Guest speaker Johnathan Gay provided a presentation entitled Kentucky Innovation Network: Helping Innovative Entrepreneurs Succeed. Johnathan is the Morehead State University and Innovation & Commercialization Center Director.
Mike Britt, UPS and Don Francis, Atlanta Clean Cities, and Melissa at Work Truck Show. UPS announced placement of 1,000 propane trucks in Oklahoma and Louisiana. Don Francis and Melissa serve as liaisons for UPS and U.S. Department of Energy.
Clean Cities coordinators come together at the Work Truck Show this week in Indianapolis, IN.
President Obama is giving federal agencies slightly more than one year to draft a rule proposal that would boost fuel economy and tighten greenhouse-gas emissions for medium- and heavy duty trucks.
Obama directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to release by March 2015 a follow-up set of fuel economy standards to those adopted by the White House in 2011. That law applies to model-year 2014 through 2018 trucks, and calls for a 20% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions and fuel consumption by 2018.
Governor Steve Beshear Friday announced Ford has awarded the state a $120,000 grant for automotive battery research.
The University Research Project grant will be used to study the preparation of materials used in making electrodes. The goal is to lower the cost, shorten the development cycle, and improve the quality and performance of future batteries. It’s the first such grant given to the state from Ford for research and development.
After years of delays and contentious negotiations that threatened to derail the farm bill, Congress completed its work on a new five-year package Tuesday that now heads to the president. The Senate voted 68-32 on a $500 billion farm bill that will end direct payments to farmers, expand the popular crop insurance program and cut spending on food stamps for some poor Americans by 1%. The White House announced Tuesday afternoon that Obama is going to sign the farm bill on Friday during a visit to East Lansing, Mich.
Since 2009, 30+ partners have been collaborating on the “longest biofuels corridor on the planet” by making all 1,786 miles of the U.S. interstate I-75 traversable using either of the biofuels E85 ethanol or B20 biodiesel. Through 2013, the project has added 28 E85 stations and 9 B20 stations in all 6 of the corridor states, and those stations have sold over 2.4 million gallons of biofuels! By the project’s end, we expect to be offsetting nearly 1.5 million GGEs per year of petroleum. To learn more visit the project site at www.CleanFuelsCorridor.com.The Southeast Alternative Fuels Conference and Expo will provide the opportunity for education and networking among fleet managers, industry experts and other decision makers. Presentations and breakout sessions will focus on alternative fuels and fleet efficiency options covering technical details, policies and programs as well as successful fleet implementation stories.
The conference will take place October 22-24 at the Raleigh, NC Convention Center.
Cummins INC. one of the world’s largest engine designers and manufacturers, says it is halting – at least for now – its development of a new spark-ignited natural gas engine.
The company announced its plans to develop this platform, the ISX15 G, back in March, 2012, saying it was aiming to strengthen its position in the natural-gas-for-transportation segment. At the time, Cummins anticipated that its new 15-liter engine would be in limited production sometime this year – a goal that is now on indefinite hold.
Clean Energy completed construction on the first LNG site located in Kentucky and is ready to open to customers. Contact Brian Wennerstrom, Business Development Manager for Clean Energy at Bwennerstrom@cleanenergyfuels.com or call 423-341-1779 for more information.
