Governor Wolf Announces Opening of First of 29 Compressed Natural Gas Fueling Stations Under Public Private Partnership

Governor Wolf Announces Opening of First of 29 Compressed Natural Gas
Fueling Stations Under Public Private Partnership

4/20/2017-HARRISBURG

Governor Tom Wolf today announced the opening of the first of 29 Compressed

Natural Gas (CNG) fueling stations planned as part of a Public Private
Partnership.

PennDOT Deputy Secretary for Multimodal Toby Fauver and P-3 Office Director

Mike Bonini joined officials from Trillium CNG, Cam Tran, and state and
local
officials in Johnstown today to mark opening of the facility.

"This innovative P3 is allowing us to help transit agencies save money and
take
advantage of plentiful supplies of natural gas produced right here in
Pennsylvania," Governor Wolf said. "We applaud Trillium for reaching this
first
milestone and look forward to continued progress on this initiative."

Through the $84.5 million statewide project, Trillium will design, build,
finance, operate and maintain CNG fueling stations at 29 public transit
agency
sites through a 20-year P3 agreement. Following today's opening, other
stations
will be constructed over the next five years and Trillium is also making
CNG-related upgrades to existing transit maintenance facilities.

CNG fueling will be accessible to the public at six transit agency sites,
with
the option to add to additional sites in the future. The CNG station in
Johnstown is available to the public, including for trucks. PennDOT will
receive a 15 percent royalty, excluding taxes, for each gallon of fuel sold
to
the public, which will be used to support the cost of the project. The team
has
guaranteed at least $2.1 million in royalties over the term of the
agreement.

Using the P3 procurement mechanism allows PennDOT to install the fueling
stations faster than if a traditional procurement mechanism was used for
each
site, resulting in significant estimated capital cost savings of more than
$46
million.

When the project is completed, the fueling stations will supply gas to more

than 1,600 CNG buses at transit agencies across the state.

A list of agencies participating in the P3 project, in order of
construction-start timeline, follows:

• Cambria County Transportation Authority, Johnstown Facility (2017),
includes
public fueling.
• Central Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, York Facility (2017),
includes
public fueling.
• Mid Mon Valley Transportation Authority (2017)
• Cambria County Transportation Authority, Ebensburg Facility (2017)
• Westmoreland County Transportation Authority (2017)
• Centre Area Transportation Authority (2017)
• Beaver County Transportation Authority (2017)
• Crawford Area Transportation Authority (2017)
• New Castle Area Transportation Authority (2017), includes public fueling.
• Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority, Allentown Facility
(2017)
• County of Lebanon Transportation Authority (2017)
• Altoona Metro Transit (2017)
• Central Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, Gettysburg Facility (2017)
• Butler Transportation Authority (2018)
• Indiana County Transportation Authority (2018), includes public fueling.
• County of Lackawanna Transportation System (2018), includes public
fueling.
• Erie Metropolitan Transportation Authority (2018), includes public
fueling.
• Mercer County Regional Council of Governments (2019)
• Fayette Area Coordinated Transportation System (2019)
• Monroe County Transportation Authority (2019)
• Area Transportation Authority of North Central PA, Bradford Facility
(2019)
• Area Transportation Authority of North Central PA, Johnsonburg Facility
(2019)
• DuBois, Falls Creek, Sandy Township Joint Transportation Authority (2020)
• Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority, Easton Facility (2021)
• Luzerne County Transportation Authority (2021)
• Schuylkill Transportation System (2021)
• Transit Authority of Warren County (2021)
• Capital Area Transit (2021)
• Port Authority of Allegheny County (2021)


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