Natural Gas Vehicles in Florida
At the beginning of 2011, there were only two public natural gas fueling stations in Florida: one in Ft. Lauderdale and one in Milton. This picture is rapidly changing as public stations are currently under development in Clearwater, Tampa, Rockledge, Sunrise, Jacksonville, and beyond.
Many commercial businesses and governmental agencies are already using clean, energy efficient natural gas vehicles to fuel their fleets. For example:
- Choice Environmental in Pompano Beach has 18 natural gas fueled trucks in its fleet
- Republic Services in Lakeland operates 50 refuse trucks in its natural gas fleet
- Veolia has a fleet of 32 natural gas fueled trucks
- The City of Clearwater is building a fueling station that will serve trucks in its Solid Waste Department, but will also be open to the public
- Tallahassee’s Leon County School District has eight new CNG fueled buses and has even opened a state-of-the-art NGV refueling facility
- AT&T in Broward County has a fleet of 24 service vans fueled by natural gas
- Tampa International Airport’s (TIA) public fueling station will become open to the public in 2011
- The airport also plans to convert its diesel-powered employee and economy parking lot shuttle service buses to natural gas— displacing approximately 275,000 gallons of diesel per year with cleaner, more efficient energy