USA: Clean Energy to add hydrogen station for bus fleet in Southern California

The Pomona location, Los Angeles County, will serve Foothill Transit, a bus service that averages 14 million rides a year.

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Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a leading provider of renewable natural gas (RNG) in North America, has won a solicitation to design, construct, and maintain a hydrogen station and supply liquid hydrogen fuel in Pomona city, Los Angeles county, Southern California.

The station will serve Foothill Transit, a bus service that averages 14 million rides a year. Foothill Transit has placed an initial order for 20 fuel cell buses, and the station is designed to support many more, according to Clean Energy.

The contract is valued at more than $13 million, and will be funded using assistance from the Federal Transportation Agency.

“Being awarded our first hydrogen station and supply contract for Foothill Transit is very important to Clean Energy because it demonstrates our ability to move to different alternative fuels as our customers expand to other technologies,” said Andrew J. Littlefair, president and CEO, Clean Energy.

Foothill Transit has been a 20-year partner with Clean Energy and is currently operating over 300 of their buses with RNG at two stations built by Clean Energy.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. is the USA’s largest provider of RNG. It operates a network of fueling stations across the United States and Canada.