SC4 March 2012 Newsletter

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In This Issue

D11 DebutsPropane Powered

School Bus

CNG, Biofuels Get$44 Million in NewFederal Research

Funds

Denver PlumberGoes Green With

Boulder EV

Solar Carports Project FEVER

Updates!

DOE Clean FleetsAdds Best Buy,

Johnson Controls

D11s Yellow School Bus Goes Green

Colorado Springs School District 11announced that it has a lease-to-

buy program with Colorado West,

a distributor of Blue Bird

Corporation, for a 2013 Blue Bird

Propane-Powered Vision school

bus. District 11 is the only school

district in the Pikes Peak region

with a propane bus as part of their

fleet. District 11 will be testing this

bus during 2012, to evaluate its

performance, reliability, and fiscal

viability as a potential future

alternative to their gasoline anddiesel school buses. These buses

are built with safety, efficiency,

and performance in mind. With

similar design features as BlueBirds conventional buses, this bus

is fueled by propane with theROUCH CleanTech Liquid Propane

Autogas Fuel System.

It meets all the same exacting safety

standards as other Blue Bird

products and meets all School Bus

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety

Standards, including fuel system

integrity for liquefied natural gas.

District 11 continues to look for

ways to improve our green efforts

and be a responsible community

partner, the district said in a

statement announcing theavailability of the bus.

For more,Click Here.

CNG, Biofuels Get Federal FundinThe feds have announced $44

million in new funding toward

research and development for

using biofuels and natural gas astransportation fuels.

The DOEs Advanced Research

Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

program will provide $30 million for

research into natural gas, and the

DOE is also making $14 million

available for algae-based biofuels

R&D.The ARPA-E funding will support a

new initiative called Methane

Opportunities for Vehicular Energy,

or MOVE.

This R&D will emphasize finding waysto develop natural gas storage

technologies that are lower in cost

and can operate at lower tank

pressures. ARPA-E will mainly fund

projects that focus on the creation

of lightweight tanks and absorbing

materials that are sized properly for

passenger vehicles.From NGT News

If you have questions about

the Southern Colorado

Clean Cities Coalition, or

youd like to know more

about becoming a partner,

call Executive Director

Alicia Archibald today at

(719) 494-6592 or email

Alicia@

cleancitiescolorado.org

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Denver Plumber Goes Green

With The Hel of Boulder EV

Experts Agree: $5/Gallon Gasoline Is Coming Fast

With no clear end to tensions with Iran and Syria and rising demand from countries like China, gas prices

are already at record highs for the winter months averaging $4.32 in California and $3.73 a gallon

nationally on Wednesday, according to AAAs Daily Fuel Gauge Report. As summer approaches,

Boulder Electric Vehicle has delivered its very first production

vehicle! The initial DV-500 has been sold to Denver-area

Precision Plumbing, Heating & Cooling who have made a

commitment to buy 20 of the all-electrics.

The new Boulder EV trucks performance differs slightly from the

original prototype debuted last year. The production versionboasts an 80-kWh battery pack made up of China-sourced

lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) cells that weigh in at 1,300 lbs

and are said to be good for 120 miles of range. Power comes

from an 80-kW AC motor that gives the 7,000-lb truck a 70 mile-

per-hour top speed. Precision Plumbing's Tom Robichaud says

that despite the higher up-front costs, he expects to save $6,000

to $8,000 per vehicle per year in lower operating costs and

anticipates the trucks to be good for 300,000 miles. Currently, he

says, the Sprinter vans he uses now are replaced after 100,000

miles. For more,visit AutoBlog.com


Project FEVERUpdate

Next Meeting: 3/15 @ 2 pm

Delta City Hall, Delta, CO

Phone-in option available

Website launch:www.ElectricRideColorado.com

Save the date: 5/17

Colorado Rides Electric Day

in Colorado Springs

Were seeking electric vehicles of

any kind, EV Supply Equipment,

renewable energy charging

products and sponsors. If you are

interested in participating or

learning more about the CO

Rides Electric Day event, please

emailJodi Schultzor call 719-213-

5001.

First Responder Training:

Various dates (May to Sept)Arapahoe Community College,

Littleton, CO

This program prepares first

responders to operate safely at

incidents involving hybrid electric,

plug-in hybrid electric and EVs.

More detailshereor call MeredithTofi eld at 303-734-3701

demand for gasoline rises, typically pushing prices up around 20 cents a

gallon. And gas prices could rise another 50 cents a gallon or more,

analysts say, if the diplomatic and economic standoff over Irans nuclear

ambitions escalates into military conflict or there is some other major supply

disruption.

If we get some kind of explosion like an Israeli attack or some local

Iranian revolutionary guard decides to take matters in his own hands and

attacks a tanker than wed see oil prices push up 20 to 25 percent

higher and another 50 cents a gallon at the pump, said Michael C. Lynch,

president of Strategic Energy and Economic Research.

For the typical driver who pumps 60 gallons a month of regular unleaded

gasoline, a 50-cent increase in price means an extra expense of $30 a

month.

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These solar carports at Fort Carson provide shade and power to workers in the

43rd Sustainment Brigade HQ.

Solar Carports:A Space-

Saving SolutionAll across America, surface

parking lots dot metropolitan

landscapes, serving the same

solitary purpose day after

day, a poster child for

underutilized real estate.

But that is changing in some

parts of the country. Parking

lots are quietly becoming the

new frontier in solar power.

While photovoltaic solar-

panel installations are most

often seen on swaths of

vacant land or on top of

buildings, parking lots are

quickly emerging as a newhotspot for solar projects,

primarily on the East and West

Coasts. So far this year,

thousands of solar panels

have been constructed over

parking lots at government

offices in California, a football

stadium in Maryland, a zoo in

Ohio, and a corporate

campus in New Jersey,

among other places.

You have this huge, massive,underutilized resource in this

countryparking lotsand people are starting to figure out its the best

place to install solar, says Desmond Wheatley, president and CEO of

California-based Envision Solar, a firm that specializes in the development

of solar parking installations.

Large-scale parking lots are becoming increasingly popular for solarpower because they are wide-open outdoor spaces that cover a large

footprint, typically larger than building rooftops. Plus, because the panels

are raised 12 to 20 feet (3.6 to 6 m) off the ground, they provide the

additional benefit of shade for the cars parked underneath them. Thus,

solar parking products and projects often use terms connoting shade, such

as solar trees, solar canopies, solar shields, and solar carports.

The amount of photovoltaic energy installed in 2010 was double 2009s

level, in terms of megawatts produced, and installations in the first half of

this year are up 70 percent over the same period last year, according to

quarterly surveys and research conducted by the Solar Energy Industries

Association in Washington, D.C., and Greentech Media Research in

Boston. Article from Zam Energy


EVs Returning To The PikesPeak Hill Climb This Year!Sending an all-electric vehicle up Pikes Peak is not

new - a Nissan Leaf and a custom EV from AC

Propulsion made the climb in 2011. But that

shouldn't stop anyone from trying to reach the

14,110-foot height in Colorado better, faster and

in a cooler car.

Enter Mitsubishi and a radically reworked all-electric i-MiEV Prototype (right) that will

participate in the 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill

Climb this July. Based on sketches released last

month, the car is a one-seat racer the certainly

looks ready for on-track duty. It also looks nothing

like the bean-shaped i-MiEV we've grown

accustomed to. We're certainly curious how well

it'll make the peak, since the powertrain is made

up of "the same EV components as the current

production i-MiEV" and it'll be piloted by well-known

driver Hiroshi Masuoka, who won the Dakar Rally in

2002 and 2003 behind the wheels of a Mitsubish

Pajero and Pajero Evolution, respectively.

Mitsubishi will "use the data obtained through its

participation in the event to enhance the durability

and reliability of pure EVs and plug-in hybrid EVs which

it will be bringing to market in the near future."

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Funding Opportunities

Light-Duty Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Validation Data

$6,000,000

Open Date: 02/29/2012Close Date: 04/30/2012

Funding Organization: Office of Energy Efficiency andRenewable Energy

Funding Number: DE-FOA-0000625

Summary: In this Light-Duty Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle ValidationData Announcement (FOA), the Fuel Cell Technologies (FCT)

Program seeks to fund the collection, analysis, and validation of

light-duty hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV)performance data operating in real-world environments.

Feedback will be provided to the DOE hydrogen and fuel cellR&D projects and industry partners to help determine what

additional R&D is required to move the technology forward. Thetotal DOE funding available for new awards is estimated to be

$6,000,000. The full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is

posted on the EERE Exchange website athttps://eere-exchange.energy.gov.

Applications must be submitted through the EERE Exchange

website to be considered for award. The applicant must first

register and create an account on the EERE Exchange website.The Users' guide for applying to Department of Energy (DOE),

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE) Funding

opportunity Announcements (FOA) through the Exchangewebsite can be found athttps://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx.

Information on where to submit questions regarding the content

of the announcement and where to submit questions regardingsubmission of applications is found in the full FOA posted on the

EERE Exchange website.For more information, see thefull solicitation.

***FTA Clean Fuels Program

$51.5 million

Deadline: 04/05/2012

Summary: The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) seeks projectproposals as part of its Clean Fuels Program to fund projects

from non-attainment or maintenance areas in achieving ormaintaining the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for

ozone and carbon monoxide. The program focus is onemerging clean fuel and advanced propulsion technologies for

transit buses and markets for those technologies. FTA alsointends to further the environmental sustainability goals byallowing proposers in attainment areas that are not eligible

under the Clean Fuels Grant Program to apply for projectswhich promote the use of clean fuels and fund those projectswith Bus and Bus Facilities program funds. The program hasallocated $51.5 million for eligible projects.

Eligible Applicants: Designated recipients in maintenance ornon-attainment areas for ozone or CO under section 107(d) of

the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7407(d)), that are entitiesdesignated to receive Federal urbanized formula funds under

49 U.S.C. 5307. Tribes, States and Designated Recipients maysubmit consolidated proposals for projects in non-urbanized

areas. FTA will also accept applications from direct recipients,Tribes, and State Departments of Transportation in attainment

areas for projects that meet eligibility criteria under the Bus andBus Facilities Program.

The deadline for submitting applications is midnight Eastern Timeon April 5, 2012. The Notice of Funding Availability can be

foundhere.

Announcements from GM and Chrysler Group this

week suggest that two of Detroit's Big Three see

the pickup truck market, particularly in the

commercial and fleet sectors, as a potential area

of growth for vehicles powered by compressednatural gas.

GM says its 2013 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC

Sierra 2500 HD extended-cab pickups will be

available as bi-fuel models featuring a CNG

fueling option. The power plant is the Vortec 6.0 L

V8 engine, which will switch between CNG and

gasoline fuel. GM has focused much of its initial

product messaging on the trucks' range: a

conservative 650 miles between the gasoline and

CNG.

These pickups complement a burgeoning market

for GM vans equipped with CNG, such as the

Chevrolet Express 2500 and 3500 cargo vans thatfleets such as AT&T are adding to their lots in

increasing numbers.

For its part, Chrysler's Ram Truck division is planning

to manufacture a factory-built CNG model for

fleet and commercial customers in North America.

According to Chrysler, the Ram 2500 Heavy Duty

CNG pickup will feature the 5.7 L HEMI V-8

modified to operate on both CNG and gasoline.

The engine has redesigned cylinder heads with

CNG-compatible valves and valve-seat materials,

along with a CNG fuel rail and injector set. New

spark plugs and powertrain control modules arealso part of the platform.

Both GM and Chrysler will deliver their CNG

offerings through existing channels. GM will build

the Silverado and Sierra in its Fort Wayne, Ind.,

facility and then ship these vehicles to IMPCO

Technologies Inc. in Union City, Ind., which will

install an aftermarket CNG bi-fuel delivery and

storage system.

From NGTNews.com

Detroit Automakers Add

CNG To Their Truck Line
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Southern Colorado Clean Cities Coalition (SC4) develops public/private

partnerships in Southern Colorado to promote alternative fuels and

advanced vehicles, fuel blends, fuel economy, hybrid vehicles, idle

reduction, and alternative modes of transportation. SC4 enhancesenergy, environmental, and economic security throughout southern

Colorado by promoting efforts to reduce petroleum consumption in the

transportation sector.

Designated a U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities program in 1994,

the Southern Colorado Coalition spans 30 counties south of I-70.

Current SC4 partners include: Governor's Energy Office, Colorado Springs

Utilities, Daniels Long Chevrolet, Black Hills Corp, JW Energy, Farrell Gas,

AireDock, Eaton, ROUSH CleanTech, City of Colorado Springs, US

General Services Administration, Yellow Cab, City of Fountain, Cripple

Creek & Victor Gold Mine, Pueblo County, Amerigas, Perkins Motor

Company, Duke's Garage, San Isabel Electric, Phil Long Ford, Pikes PeakArea Council of Governments, and

El Paso County.

Contact us to join today!

DOE: 4 New Partners OnThe Clean Fleets Team

Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced that four

new corporate partnersBest Buy, Johnson Controls,

Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veoliaare joining the

Energy Department's National Clean Fleets

Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that

assists the nation's largest fleet operators in reducing

the amount of gasoline and diesel they usenationwide. The new partners join with 14 other major

national companies in committing to improve the fuel

economy of the commercial fleets, integrate

alternative technology vehicles like natural gas trucks

and electric vehicles into their fleets, and reduce their

overall fuel use. Collectively, the National Clean Fleets

Partners operate more than a million commercial

vehicles nationwide, accounting for more than 12% of

all commercial vehicles on American roads.

"As part of the President's all-of-the-above approach

to reducing fuel costs for American consumers and

businesses, the NCFP helps leading U.S. companies

reduce their fuel use, save money, and becomemodels for fleets across the nation to improve their

efficiency," said Chu. "By adopting alternative fuels,

advanced vehicles and by making their operations

smarter and more fuel-efficient, these national

partners are increasing their competitiveness

SC4 March 2012 719-494-6592 http://southern.cleancitiescolorado.or

About The Southern Colorado Clean Cities CoalitionPhone:(719) 494-6592

E-Mail:[email protected]

Dianne@

cleancitiescolorado.org

Web:http://southern.clean

citiescolorado.org

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LOCAL EVENTS03/27 - SC4 Quarterly Stakeholder Meeting, 8:30 am, Daniels Long

Chevrolet, Motor City, Colorado Springs. Details to follow

03/21 - Sustainable Opportunities Summit 2012, 8:30 - 5pm, Denver

04/01 - Pikes Peak Earth Day Kickoff Celebration, Colorado Springs

04/09 04/11 - Global New Energy Summit, Colorado Springs

04/16 04/19 - International Biomass Conference and Expo, Denver

05/13

05/17 - World Renewable Energy Forum (WREF), Denver

05/17 - Colorado Rides Electric Day, Colorado Springs. Details to come

06/10 06/12 - 2012 Summit for Recycling, Pueblo

06/18 06/20 - Government Fleet Expo and Conference 2012,

Denver

NATIONAL EVENTS03/25 03/28Energy Indepdence Summit, Washington, DC

03/27 03/29 - 61st Annual Vehicle Maintenance Management

Conference, Shoreline, WA

05/06

05/09 - International Electric Vehicle Symposium, LosAngeles, CA

05/14 05/17 - ACT 2012 (Alterative Clean Transportation Expo),

Long Beach, CA
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SC4 March 2012 Newsletter

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