{"id":5961,"date":"2022-06-15T09:11:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=5961"},"modified":"2022-07-21T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:15:43","slug":"mea-awards-nearly-4-million-in-clean-fuels-incentive-program-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2022\/06\/15\/mea-awards-nearly-4-million-in-clean-fuels-incentive-program-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"MEA Awards Nearly $4 Million in Clean Fuels Incentive Program Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jahmai.sharp-moore@maryland.gov\">Jahmai Sharp-Moore<\/a>\u00a0| 443-694-3651<\/p>\n<p><b>Baltimore, MD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) is pleased to announce four additional awards under the second round of the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/transportation\/Pages\/Clean-Fuels-Incentive-Program.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clean Fuels Incentive Program (CFIP)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, totaling $3.9 million in funding. Collectively, these awards have the potential to leverage nearly $12 million in fleet investment and displace over 655,000 gallons of petroleum annually. The funding round received over $6.3 million in grant funding requests, more than 3 times the program\u2019s budget target.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The awarded projects all represent innovative deployments with large fleet operators across a variety of alternative fuels. The FY22 CFIP Round 2 awardees are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blue Triton: $554,275 to purchase and deploy 25 propane autogas Class 7 delivery trucks in Lanham.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chaney Enterprises: $900,000 to purchase and deploy 6 electric concrete-mixer trucks at 3 locations in Anne Arundel and Prince George\u2019s County. The vehicles are expected to represent the first such deployment in the State and one of the first in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ecology Services: $986,160 to purchase and deploy 20 compressed natural gas (CNG) refuse trucks in Gaithersburg.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sysco: $1,500,000 to purchase and deploy 10 Class 8 electric tractors in Jessup. The vehicles will be Sysco\u2019s first such deployment on the East Coast and are expected to represent the first and largest Class 8 electric vehicle deployment in the State.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are pleased to support these high-quality projects, which include additional EV milestones and \u201cfirsts\u201d for Maryland,\u201d stated MEA Director Dr. Mary Beth Tung. \u201cThe overwhelming and unprecedented program response confirms that fleet demand for domestically-produced, cost and emissions-saving alternative fuels is stronger than ever as the fleet industry grapples with historically high petroleum prices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">See <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/transportation\/SiteAssets\/Pages\/Clean-Fuels-Incentive-Program\/FY22%20CFIP%20Round%201%20Awards%203-22-22.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the list of previously awarded FY22 Clean Fuels Incentive Program (CFIP) from Round 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CFIP supports Governor Hogan\u2019s commitment to address climate change through the deployment of alternative fuel and zero emission vehicles. Visit MEA\u2019s<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/transportation\/Pages\/Clean-Fuels-Incentive-Program.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> CFIP webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for information on the program. Please contact Mike Jones, Transportation Program Manager at mike.jones@maryland.gov with any additional questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:\u00a0Jahmai Sharp-Moore\u00a0| 443-694-3651 Baltimore, MD&#8211; The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) is pleased to announce four additional awards under the second round of the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Clean Fuels Incentive Program (CFIP), totaling $3.9 million in funding. Collectively, these awards have the potential to leverage nearly $12<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2022\/06\/15\/mea-awards-nearly-4-million-in-clean-fuels-incentive-program-grants\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"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":[25,10,4,1],"tags":[57,222,56],"class_list":["post-5961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized","tag-alternative-fuel","tag-clean-fuel","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961","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\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6008,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions\/6008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}