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Clean Energy Receives $400,000 In SEP Grants From U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities Program

Seal Beach, California (August 17, 2004) — Clean Energy, North America’s leader in clean transportation, has been awarded $400,000 in 2004 State Energy Program (SEP) Grants as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Clean Cities Program.
Clean Energy will receive $150,000 for a CNG-fueling station at Sky Harbor Airport Station in Arizona — the entire amount of funding awarded for that state. Clean Energy also won approval for $150,000 to construct an LNG/CNG fueling station in Stanton, California for refuse trucks.

In addition, Clean Energy won a "niche market" grant of $100,000 to be put towards 20 CNG vans in the Los Angeles area.

"We thank the U.S. Department of Energy for sharing our vision of fueling a cleaner America," stated Andrew J. Littlefair, President and CEO, Clean Energy. "By expanding the CNG fueling station infrastructure, we make Natural Gas fuel more available to owners of natural gas vehicles (NGVs), and in turn, help to heighten interest in those vehicles."

Clean Energy’s three grants, totaling $400,000, represent 10% of the funding awarded to all states as part of this program.

Clean Energy is the largest provider of vehicular natural gas in North America with a broad customer base in the refuse, transit, shuttle, taxi, police, intrastate and interstate trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets — with tens of thousands of vehicles fueling daily at strategic locations in the United States and Canada. For more information, please visit www.cleanenergyfuels.com.