Reports produced in partnership with Virginia Clean Cities

Siting Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
April 2012

Conventional vehicles have a wide network of gas stations to keep fueled. What do electric vehicles need to ensure comparable predictability? This reports offers guidance on how and where to install equipment to keep electric vehicles powered up and running reliably. The report describes three levels of equipment that will be used to charge battery-powered electric vehicles. All three levels – from simple, low-cost Level 1 electric vehicle supply equipment to DC fast chargers – will be installed to help deploy the range of vehicles that are being introduced.
Siting-EV-Charging-Stations-FINAL-1.pdf



Clean Cities 2011 Annual Report
March 22, 2012

In 2011, alternative fuel vehicles and fuel economy improvements in Virginia reduced the use of gasoline by 8,471,311 gallons and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 57,497 tons. These numbers are increases from 2010′s Annual Report of 7,236,621 gallons of gasoline reduced and 40,404 tons of greenhouse gases reduced and are much higher than 2009′s Annual Report of 3,409,004 gallons of gasoline reduced and 8,834 tons of greenhouse gases reduced.
AnnualReport2011.pdf




Virginia Alternative Fuels Report 2011
March 22, 2012

For the year ending December 31, 2011, 8,855,000 gallons of alternative fuels were produced and reported by three active biofuel production companies in Virginia. Of this, 2,015,000 gallons were biodiesel, and 840,000 were from ethanol production.The reported feedstock for the biodiesel fuel this year was soybean oil, waste food oils, and canola oil. Ethanol was made primarily from recycling of waste beverages and alcohols. The production for 2011 represents an increase of 648,568 gallons of fuel (an increase of 29% from last 2010’s 2,206,432 gallons).
AltFuels2011.pdf



EV Charging Stations for Persons With Disabilities
February 17, 2012

As our nation develops a network of EV charging stations, we must include access for persons with disabilities and comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). To ensure businesses have resources on proper ways to install charging stations with access for all users, including those with disabilities, Clean Fuels Ohio and Virginia Clean Cities have released “EV Charging for Persons with Disabilities.”
EVChargingStationsforPersonsWithDisabilities.pdf





Richmond CNG Case Study
October 31, 2011

As part of the Green Richmond Initiative, the City of Richmond’s Department of Public Utilities and VCC launched a CNG project. The Green Richmond Initiative was launched by the City of Richmond to build on its past efforts and implement new programs to further Mayor Dwight C. Jones’ triple bottom line goals of sustainability. The project has fostered a more efficient use of resources and improved quality of life by reducing the number of refuse trucks required from 37 diesel trucks to 25 CNG trucks, reducing fuel costs, and by lowering emissions.
RichmondCNG.pdf



2011 Plug-In Vehicle Strategic Planning Update
October 31, 2011

This report is designed to provide a snapshot in time for Virginia Electric and Plug-In Vehicle readiness. This is intended as a brief update and addendum to the October 2010 Virginia Get Ready Electric Vehicles plan, and can also be used as a resource for the 2012 Richmond Electric Vehicle Initiative final report. This effort encompasses the geographic area of all of Virginia, but can be utilized by regional partners. Portions of this assessment will focus on the greater Richmond Virginia region as a result of clustered planning partners.
2011Plug-InUpdate.pdf



Business Case for Compressed Natural Gas in Chesapeake Virginia Municipal Fleet
April 2011

Chesapeake Virginia has 53 vehicles and is considering converting them to use CNG. This case is an economic assessment that was done for a potential future project. Specific variables for the locality were considered, such as purchasing schedule specific fleet costs, and vehicle miles traveled. This document establishes a feasibility scenario for CNG usage in the municipal fleet in Chesapeake by calculating the life cycle cash flow of investing in the vehicles and infrastructure and paying it back through savings in fuel expenditures.
ChesapeakeCNG.pdf



Virginia Alternate Fuels Report 2010
January 10, 2011

For the year ending December 31, 2010, 1,706,432 gallons of alternative fuels were produced and reported by three active biofuel production companies in Virginia.For this reporting year, all of these fuels were biodiesel. The reported feedstock for these fuels was soybean oil, waste food oils, and canola oil. Virginia’s ethanol facilities reported no transportation fuel production for 2010. The production for the year represents a 32% decline of approximately 815,000 gallons of fuel from the 2009 year, where 2,521,354 gallons of alternative fuels (all biodiesel) were produced.
AltFuels2010.pdf



Clean School Bus USA Case Study
March 30, 2010

From March of 2008 to December of 2010, Virginia Clean Cities provided program management and administrative support for the Clean School Bus USA Middle Peninsula Project. The objective of this project was to promote healthful air, especially for student riders, by reducing diesel exhaust emissions from school buses in Virginia’s Middle Peninsula and Piedmont region through the deployment of alternative fuels and technologies paired with a concentrated outreach and education campaign.
CleanSchoolBus.pdf




Virginia Get Ready Initial Electric Vehicle Plan
October 13, 2010

The Virginia Get Ready Roundtable met on May 18, 2010. Following this, stakeholders continued to plan for upcoming electric vehicles.
GetReady.pdf



Dragon Run Biodiesel Project
March 31, 2007

Virginia Clean Cities was contracted by the MPPDC to continue further exploration of biodiesel market viability and present recommendations based on survey summaries and stakeholder interest detailing potential to fulfill the goal to provide sustainable natural resource-based economic benefit to the watershed community centered around the use and production of biodiesel as a cleaner, healthier, domestic alternative to fossil fuel.
DragonRun.doc




Building a Hydrogen Economy in Virginia
September 12, 2006

Fuel cells and hydrogen are regarded as usable, long-term technologies for energy security. This report summarizes a series of roundtable discussions that suggest ideas of how to build a hydrogen economy in Virginia.
BuildingaHydrogenEconomyinVirginia.pdf