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Recommendation to authorize Director of Long Beach Gas and Oil to grant an after-hours parking Permit to Professional Parking Services of Signal Hill to accommodate seven compressed natural gas-powered shuttle buses serving California State University Long Beach.
(District 5)
DISCUSSION
As gasoline fuel prices remain high and the State of California continues its aggressive drive toward greenhouse gas emission reductions, Long Beach Gas and Oil (LBGO) has been trying to capture a share of the increasing market for compressed natural gas (CNG) as a motor vehicle fuel as part of LBGO's sales growth strategy. As a result, LBGO’s sales of CNG have nearly tripled over the past five years. Recently added CNG customers for LBGO include Long Beach Transit, due to conversion of its bus fleet to run on CNG, and a similar CNG fleet conversion at EDCO, a waste hauling and recycling company based in Signal Hill, California.
In July 2013, Professional Parking Services, a Signal Hill-based company, entered into a one-year renewable contract with California State University Long Beach (CSULB) to provide CNG-powered shuttle bus service to CSULB’s 322-acre campus and over 36,000 students. LBGO staff has worked closely with Clean Energy, LBGO’S CNG station operator, to construct an incentive package wherein LBGO/Clean Energy would serve as the fuel distributor to all Professional Parking Services’ shuttle buses serving the CSULB campus.
Under this agreement, Professional Parking Services will purchase CNG for its seven shuttle buses exclusively from LBGO’s CNG fueling station operated by Clean Energy. A minimum of 3,000 gallon equivalents will be purchased monthly. Under the existing Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Station Agreement between LBGO and Clean Energy, LBGO receives a royalty payment from Clean Energy for every CNG gallon equivalent sold at the LBGO station. LBGO also receives volumetric revenue for delivering natural gas to the CNG station.
In turn, LBGO...
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