{"id":5166,"date":"2021-02-24T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:28:36","slug":"new-maryland-clean-fuels-incentive-program-greens-transportation-sector-1-3-million-awarded-to-five-organizations-largest-electric-school-bus-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2021\/02\/24\/new-maryland-clean-fuels-incentive-program-greens-transportation-sector-1-3-million-awarded-to-five-organizations-largest-electric-school-bus-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"New Maryland Clean Fuels Incentive Program \u201cGreens\u201d Transportation Sector $1.3 Million Awarded to Five Organizations; Largest Electric School Bus Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:\u00a0Jahmai Sharp-Moore<\/a> | 443-694-3651<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baltimore, MD <\/b>\u2013 The <\/span>Clean Fuels Incentive Program (CFIP)\u200b<\/span><\/a>, created and managed by the <\/span>Maryland Energy Administration (MEA)<\/span><\/a>, supports both the purchase of fleet alternative fuel vehicles and funding to expand the state\u2019s alternative fueling infrastructure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions via proven technology. The CFIP is designed to permanently \u201cgreen\u201d Maryland\u2019s transportation profile, which will improve air quality by reducing consumption of fossil fuels. The fiscal year 2021 (FY21) CFIP awards of $1.3M will fund an array of clean fuel projects across the state, including one of the largest electric school bus deployments in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Clean Fuels Incentive Program expands Maryland\u2019s alternative transportation sector and benefits both our environment and economy,\u201d began Dr. Mary Beth Tung, MEA Director. \u201cWith this program, we bring Maryland the first electric school buses and first electric step vans, plus add emission-reduced propane vehicles and build upon our electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Highland Electric Transportation (HET)<\/span><\/a> provides electric school bus services, including acquisition, vehicle financing, maintenance, fueling\/charging, and charge equipment management to school districts across the country. HET will use their FY21 award of $817,000 to purchase 19 electric school buses, one of the largest deployments of electric school buses in the U.S., that will be used by the Montgomery County Public School district. Use of these electric busses is expected to displace over 520,000 gallons of petroleum and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50% over the lifetime of the buses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peapod Digital Labs (PDL)<\/span><\/a> is the ecommerce engine of Ahold Delhaize USA, one of the nation\u2019s largest grocery retail groups. PDL will use their FY21 award of $100,000 to purchase their company\u2019s first electric fleet vehicles. PDL\u2019s purchase of two electric step vans will be the first deployment of electric step vans in Maryland. This effort kicks off the company\u2019s plan to transition their 119 vehicle fleet based in Hanover to all-electric over the next several years. The vans are expected to displace over 210,000 gallons of petroleum and reduce GHG emissions by 63% over the lifetime of the vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jubb\u2019s Bus Service<\/span>, a school bus contractor in Anne Arundel County, is one of the largest operators of propane autogas school buses in the state. Jubb\u2019s will use their FY21 award of $190,850 to purchase 11 additional propane autogas buses, which are expected to displace over 223,000 gallons of petroleum over the lifetime of the buses.<\/span><\/p>\n

EVgo<\/span><\/a> is ranked by the U.S. Department of Energy as the largest owner and operator of direct current (DC) fast charge public chargers in the country. EVgo will use their FY21 award of $156,0000 to place four public DC fast chargers at two locations in the most heavily populated areas of Bethesda that do not have\u00a0 public fast charging options.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Electric Vehicle Institute (EVI)<\/span><\/a>, based in Baltimore, is an EV charging service company that has installed hundreds of charging stations throughout the state and across the region. EVI will use their FY21 award of $109,915 to place two public fast chargers in Chestertown, previously an underserved area for public EV charging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The transportation sector is responsible for the majority of Maryland\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the <\/span>Maryland Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act Plan<\/span><\/a>. Efforts like CFIP help reduce emissions while also reducing fuel and maintenance costs for fleets. The FY21 CFIP is a competitive program that was fully subscribed in its first year. Click <\/span>here<\/span><\/a> to learn more about CFIP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA)<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>advises the governor and general assembly on all energy matters, promoting affordable, reliable and cleaner energy. MEA develops and administers programs and policy to support and expand all sectors of the state\u2019s economy while benefiting all Marylanders and implementing legislation. For more information about the Maryland Energy Administration, visit www.Energy.Maryland.gov<\/a> <\/strong>and follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/strong> and LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact:\u00a0Jahmai Sharp-Moore | 443-694-3651 Baltimore, MD \u2013 The Clean Fuels Incentive Program (CFIP)\u200b, created and managed by the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA), supports both the purchase of fleet alternative fuel vehicles and funding to expand the state\u2019s alternative fueling infrastructure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions via proven technology.  …Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,25,10,4],"tags":[57,182,224,222,225,65,62,211,226],"class_list":["post-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","category-press-releases","tag-alternative-fuel","tag-alternative-transportation","tag-autogas","tag-clean-fuel","tag-dc-fast-charger","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-ev","tag-ev-charger","tag-greenhouse-gas-reduction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}