{"id":127616,"date":"2024-02-20T17:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T22:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=127616"},"modified":"2024-02-20T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T22:37:37","slug":"lanta-and-ugies-announce-biofuel-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=127616","title":{"rendered":"LANTA AND UGIES ANNOUNCE BIOFUEL AGREEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured Image: Shaun Hart, VP at UGIES and Owen O\u2019Neil, Executive Director of LANTA at the ceremonial \u2018first fill\u2019 of a LANTA Bus using Renewable Natural Gas sourced from Pennsylvania landfill. LANTA is the first transit agency in Pennsylvania to utilize this renewable energy in its fleet.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Allentown, PA (Special) — Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANTA) and UGI Energy Services, Inc. LLC (UGIES) announced a \u2018first-in-Pennsylvania\u2019 partnership to use Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) to power the eighty-plus buses in LANTA\u2019s fleet.<\/p>\n

At a press conference in Allentown today (Tuesday, February 20) the companies performed a ceremonial First-Fill at LANTA\u2019s Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling station. The agreement between LANTA and UGIES calls for the Authority to purchase Pennsylvania-sourced clean biogas fed into the system from area landfills.<\/p>\n

RNG is biogas, the gaseous product of the decomposition of organic matter that has been processed to purity standards. Like conventional natural gas, RNG can be used as a transportation fuel in the form of the CNG that powers LANTA buses. RNG qualifies as an advanced biofuel under the US Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard of 2005.<\/p>\n

LANTA\u2019s Executive Director Owen P. O\u2019Neil was joined by UGIES\u2019 Shaun Hart, Vice President of Commodity Marketing, Growth & Retention, in announcing the agreement. \u201cThis agreement is yet another step in LANTA\u2019s ongoing commitment to helping create a greener Lehigh Valley\u2026one mile at a time,\u201d O\u2019Neil said.\u00a0 \u201cStarting in 2010 we put our first hybrid diesel-electric buses on the road, followed by a commitment to clean natural gas vehicles. Now, with this agreement with UGIES, renewable natural gas will power our fleet,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to partner with LANTA in providing RNG to fuel their transportation fleet,\u201d said UGI Energy Services President, Joe Hartz. \u201cThis project marks a milestone for UGI Energy Services as this is the first agreement in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for a transportation authority to fuel their vehicles with RNG.\u00a0 We are proud to help LANTA and the surrounding communities in the Lehigh Valley reduce emissions while lowering their carbon footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we continue to focus on the need to remove carbon from the atmosphere, it is partnerships like this between UGI Energy Services and LANTA that we need more of throughout the Commonwealth,\u201d Senator Lisa Boscola said in a statement.\u00a0 \u201cThe transportation sector must be a focus of new state policies to address emissions and it is my belief that we must work to implement incentives that bring about more partnerships such the UGIES and LANTA that we celebrate today.\u00a0 While other transit agencies in Pennsylvania use CNG buses, LANTA is the first to commit by contract to purchase renewable biofuel produced by existing landfills in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n

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Information provided to TVL by:
\nChuck Genna
\nMedia Relations Coordinator
\nLehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority<\/p>\n

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