For decades, natural gas has been recognized as a clean fuel for power generation, residential and commercial heating and cooking, and manufacturing. Lately, natural gas also has become one of the key fuels in the transition to a new generation of transportation that is environmentally friendly.
Natural gas powered vehicles (NGVs), which produce far fewer emissions than gasoline and diesel vehicles, increasingly are the vehicle of choice for public transportation and fleets of company service and delivery vehicles. Presently, there are more than 11,000 transit buses, 5,500 natural gas-powered school buses, and tens of thousands of fleet vehicles logging millions of low emission miles throughout the United States. This burgeoning fleet of public transportation and company vehicles is supported by a large and rapidly growing infrastructure of thousands of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquid natural gas (LNG) refueling stations.
In our service area, Peoples actively is working with our commercial and industrial customers to foster the growth of NGV fleets in the travel, transport, logistics, and other crucial markets. Currently, there are over 30 public and private NGV fueling stations in our service territory.