SC4 May 2012 Newsletter

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In This Issue

DOE Announces $5Million Grant For

Communities

RENAIS Offers NewFunding To LocalFleets

Natural Gas, EVPromotions Bill

Introduced in

Congress

20-Minute EVCharger StandardDebuts

President Calls ForMore Bio-Based

Fuels

DOE Announces $5M For Alt. Fuels

The U.S. Department of Energy hasannounced up to $5 million

available this year to help expand

the use of alternative fuel vehicles,

including EVs, in cities and townsacross the country. The funding will

help cut red tape and streamline

permitting processes forhomeowners and businesses,

provide training for mechanics

and first responders, and support

community planning to expandfueling infrastructure for alternative

fuel vehicles. The Administration'sinvestments in electric drive andalternative fuel vehicles are part of

a comprehensive strategy to

increase America's energysecurity, reduce emissions, and

help families and drivers save

money.This initiative will help communities

streamline and quicken permitting

processes and coordinatealternative fuel vehicle and EV

infrastructure deployment acrossstate, regional and local

governments. The selectedprojects will also help communities

build a workforce with the skills to

support these vehicles and

infrastructure by training firstresponders and m echanics. In

addition, they will provide

resources, such as educationalmaterials and tools, to help

consumers understand the eco-nomic and environmental benefitsof alternative fuel vehicles and

choose the right vehicle for their

needs. The Energy Departmentseeks proposals that address barriers

to the adoption of these vehicles,

provide safety training, coordinateinitiatives, and drive market

development and transformation tomake alternative fuel vehicles and

fueling infrastructure widely

available. Proposed projects should

cover each of these areas. Thisfunding opportunity does not

provide for the purchase orinstallation of vehicles or

infrastructure. The Department

strongly encourages organizationsto form teams that include one or

more active designated Clean

Cities coalitions as well as otherpartners with relevant experience

and expertise. The Department

anticipates awarding 10 to 20

projects this year to be completedwithin two years. For more

information and applicationrequirements for this funding

opportunity, please see theannouncement in the Clean Cities

Financial Opportunities section, or

visit the DOE's Funding Opportunity

Exchange website under Reference

Number DE-FOA-0000708.

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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New legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House of

Representatives that seeks to support more development ofrefueling infrastructure for natural gas, hydrogen fuel cell and

other alternative fuel vehicles, as well as to extend expired tax

credits for natural gas vehicles and increase incentives for thepurchase of electric vehicles. The bill, called the Investing to

Modernize the Production of American Clean Energy and

Technology Act, was introduced by Reps. Ed Markey, JohnLarson, Henry Waxman, Bill Pascrell Jr. and Earl Blumenauer.

At the core of the act is the elimination of nearly $45 billion in

federal subsidies for the largest oil companies, which fulfills aperennial legislative priority for many Democratic lawmakers.

The bill also focuses on extending the production tax credit for

wind, solar, geothermal and other clean energy resources, aswell as renewing the Treasury's 1603 cash-grant program.

The congressmen perceive all of the incentives - those tied to

power generation and transportation alike - as being an integralpart of the Obama administration's push for clean, domestic

fuel. Many federal incentives targeted to the alternative fuel

vehicles sector have been on the books for a number of years,but suffered from lapses when bills designed to extend the

incentives failed to pass. Recent efforts to refresh and expandincentive packages, such as the highly touted NAT GAS Act,

have not gotten traction.

The new legislation proposes long-term extensions for someprograms, like the credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling

infrastructure.

Read the full story atNext-Gen Transportation News.

Legislation Promoting Natural

Gas, EVs Returns to Congress

RENAIS: New Financing For Local Fleet Managers


Thursday, May 17th

Governor Hickenlooper isproclaiming May 17 Electric

Vehicle Day in Colorado!

Join us for a FREE community

event to raise awareness andunderstanding of plug-in electric

vehicles. Explore and test drivenew electric plug-in vehicles, see

electric vehicles already

deployed in our community, learnabout charging stations, and

enjoy the movie Revenge of theElectric Car, by Director Chris

Paine.

Join the movement and transform

the way we drive!

www.ElectricRideColorado.com

4:30pm7:00pm - Electric Vehicle & EVCharging Station Demonstration @ SE

corner of Nevada Avenue & Kiowa Street

6:30pm8:00pm - Revenge of the Electric

Car Movie Screening @ Lon Chaney

Theater in the Historic City Auditorium

8:00pm8:30pm - Information Session

The Renewable Energy Network for Aggregated and

Integrative Systems has a new partnership with a major

regional bank that will leverage the federal and statetax credits and lower the base price of the Mitsubishi i-

MiEV (left ) for a lease for public and non-profit fleet

managers.In effect, this program lowers the cap price of the i-

MiEV down to less than $25,000 in a lease arrangementfor 60 months. This will allow state, county, city, university

and college fleet managers to get all-electric vehiclesby using operating budgets and not requiring approval

for capital fund commitment.

As you may know, nearly 1100 mayors have signed the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement (details at

http://www.usmayors.org/climateprotection/revised ). This new financing model is perfect for cities. Better

still, more than 650 college and university presidents have signed the American College and UniversityPresidents Climate Commitment (http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org). These cities and

college/universities have fleets of cars and those cars could be producing no carbon emissions if they

would switch to the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. They can do all of this and not need to use capital funds. They canuse operating transportation funds which is a much better use of those funds than to continue to use

gasoline-powered vehicles since fuel costs are 70% less with electric cars versus gasoline-powered cars.
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EVS26 20-Minute Fast ChargeDebuts From Major Automakers

Global automakers from theUnited States and Germany

have standardized on a new

fast-charging technology that

will enable the recharging ofmost electrified vehicles with

compatible systems in as little

as 15-20 minutes.Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Daimler,

Ford, General Motors,

Porsche and Volkswagenhave agreed to support a

harmonized single-port fast

charging approach called

DC Fast Charging with aCombined Charging System

for use on electric vehicles in

Europe and the United States.

Live charging demonstrations

were conducted during theElectric Vehicle Symposium in

early May.

The combined charging

system integrates one-phaseAC-charging, fast three-

phase AC-charging, DC-

charging at home and ultra-fast DC-charging at public

stations into one vehicle inlet.

This will allow customers tocharge at most existing

charging stations regardless

of power source and mayspeed more affordable

adoption of a standardized

infrastructure.The International Society of

Automotive Engineers (SAE)

has chosen the Combined

Charging System as the fast-charging methodology for a

standard that incrementally

extends the existing Type 1-based AC charging. The

standard is to be officially

published this summer.

FromEngadget.com


Obama Calls For More Bio-Based Products Usage,Including Fuels In Federal FleetsOn February 21, 2012, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the FederalGovernment to take decisive steps to dramatically increase the purchase of biobased products over the

next two years. The steps include:

increasing the number of products designated for preferred federal purchasing by 50%, requiring federal agencies to set goals and milestones for biobased purchasing and using

scorecards to keep track of their progress, requiring tracking and public reporting of biobased purchases by federal agencies, increasing support for small businesses that manufacture biobased products, updating and expanding biobased purchasing education and outreach programs, and requiring USDA to prepare a report to the President on job creation and the economic impact

associated with the biobased products industry.

The goal of the memorandum is to ensure that executive departments and agencies effectively executeFederal procurement requirements for biobased products, including those requirements identified in

Executive Order 13514 and prescribed in the 2002 Farm Bill, as amended by the 2008 Farm Bill.

Read the memorandum as published in the Federal Register, March 14, 2012.

For more, visitSoyBioBased.org

Thank you!

I wanted to thank the Clean Cities

Coalitions in Colorado for the help you

have extended. I did put in for the CCCstatewide renewal again today, and it

reminded me about how helpful and

enabling the Clean Cities has beentoward helping me advancing my

achievements with regard to the

following awardsWe already won a

ranking in the Top 100 Best Fleet awardfor 2012, but the list will be narrowed to

the top 20 at the award ceremony on

June 20th, at the GFX...Some of the otherawards during the past 3-4 years have

been:

#39 ranking in the national overallBest Government Fleets (by-GFXand RMFMA-bobit publishing)

during September 2009,

#8 for being the Best Green Fleet(by-GFX and RMFMA-bobitpublishing).

#1 Best Sustainable Green FleetAward from National Association ofFleet Administrators (NAFA)

This is the first time in the history of theColorado State Fleet, that they have

been awarded with honors such as

these.

-----From Art Hale, State Fleet Manager

for the State of Colorado Division of

CentralServices
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SC4 May 2012 719-494- 592 http://southern.cleancitiescolorado.org

Funding OpportunitiesImplementation Initiatives to Advance Alternative Fuel MarketsFunding Opportunity Announcement

Through this solicitation, Clean Cities is making approximately $5million available for community readiness projects for allalternative fuels. We anticipate awarding 10 to 20 projects thisyear to be completed over two years.Proposals are being sought that address four areas that are

critical to alternative fuel adoption: 1) Policy Initiatives, 2) BarrierReduction Initiatives, 3) Safety and Training Initiatives, and 4)Market Development/Outreach Initiatives. Note that fundingavailable under this particular FOA cannot be used to purchasevehicles or hardware for fueling infrastructure.You can find the full solicitation and application at theOffice of

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Exchange

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Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles

$12,000,000 for new awards; up to $8,000,000 per award

Open Date: 04/05/2012Close Date: 05/31/2012

Funding Organization: DOE National Energy TechnologyLaboratory on behalf of the DOE EERE Vehicle TechnologiesProgramFunding Number: DE-FOA-0000667Summary: The objective of this FOA is to research and developa production-feasible wireless charging system, integrate thesystem into a production-intent vehicle, and to demonstrate thetechnologys readiness to deliver the benefits of static (andpossibly quasi-dynamic) wireless charging to drivers of light-duty(10,000 lb Gross Vehicle Weight Rating or less) Grid-Connected

Electric Drive Vehicles (GCEDV). While the primary focus of thisproject is the advancement of static and possibly quasi-dynamic charging, the Department of Energy (DOE) recognizesthat the research and demonstration results of this FOA maycontribute to the future development of dynamic chargingcapability. This project shall demonstrate wireless charging

technology while being cost competitive and compliant withsafety standards. For more information, see the full solicitation

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EPA's National Clean Diesel Campaign

The NCDC opened a grant competition on April 20 to solicitproposals for the National Clean Diesel Funding AssistanceProgram funded through the Diesel Emissions Reduction (DERA)program. The total estimated funding for this competitiveopportunity is approximately $20 million. The Request forProposal (RFP) is posted here and onwww.grants.gov. TheNCDC website contains more information regarding cleandiesel technologies, past awarded projects, and helpful tips.The RFP will be open for approximately 45 days, closing on June4, 2012. EPA plans to award funding through this competition inthe Fall, 2012.This RFP has been updated from the most recent competition,so applicants are encouraged to carefully rev iew the RFP to

ensure a thorough understanding of eligible projects andtechnologies.There will be three Q&A Webinars to be held on April 24, 25 and26. Please visit the NCDC website for more information.All questions and/or inquiries regarding this RFP should besubmitted in w riting [email protected], or call 1-877-

NCDC-FACTS.

Ron Latko, director of transportation and vehicle

maintenance for Arizona's Mesa Unified School

District, discusses his fleet's conversion from dieselto propane autogas with both the easy

nonchalance of a pragmatist and the passion ofa prophet. The fact is, shifting to propane made

sense in terms of dollars and logistics, and theresults of the switch would likely arouse passion in

most fleet managers.

"I have yet to find a downside," Latko says of themove to propane-powered buses.

That's certainly a strong endorsement of the

technology, but let's look at specifics.The fleet in Mesa - the state's largest single public

school district - contains more than 500 buses,

each of which averages about 15,500 miles peryear. The service life of a diesel-powered bus

operating in Arizona is typically about 13 years, or

200,000 miles. Latko says the new propane buseswill likely be in circulation longer than that, mainly

because they run cleaner and more efficiently

than diesel models."We believe these engines will have a longer life,

and we will get an additional three to five years,"he tells NGT News. "In that case, the operatingsavings will be greater than the cost of the bus."

The school district brought 21 propane

wheelchair buses online in October 2011. TheseBlue Bird/Girardin vehicles, which are outfitted

with OEM-approved ROUSH CleanTech propanesystems, accommodate 15 passengers and two

wheelchair positions. Each unit cost $6,400 less

than the identically configured diesel busesMesa Unified purchased three years ago.

Latko is also taking delivery of six 77-passenger

Blue Bird/ROUSH propane buses this week. Theunits were $10,245 more expensive than the 72-

passenger conventional diesel buses that the

fleet bought in 2009.

Latko explains that he did not balk at theadditional cost for the 77-seaters for two main

reasons. First of all, model-year price increasesbetween 2009 and 2012 would have closed the

gap between the propane and diesel models.

Secondly, if Mesa Unified had bought model-

year 2010 diesel buses, they would have required

expensive equipment in order to meet new

emissions standards.

Read the full feature from NGT News here.

Feature: On School BusFleets Experience With A

Propane Conversion
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Southern Colorado Clean Cities Coalition (SC4) develops public/privatepartnerships 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 SpringsUtilities, Daniels Long Chevrolet, Black Hills Corp, JW Energy, Ferrellgas,

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

General Services Administration, Yellow Cab, City of Fountain, CrippleCreek & Victor Gold Mine, Pueblo County, Amerigas, Perkins Motor

Company, Duke's Garage, San Isabel Electric, Phil Long Ford, Pikes PeakArea Council of Governments, andEl Paso County.

Contact us to join today!


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

E-Mail:

Alicia@ cleancitiescolorado.org

Dianne@

cleancitiescolorado.org

Web:http://southern.clean

citiescolorado.org

Find Us on Facebook:Southern Colorado Clean Cities

Coalition

Follow Us On Twitter:@SoCOCleanCities

LOCAL EVENTS05/08 05/11 - Colorado Association of Transit Agencies Spring Training Conference , Fort Collins

05/13 05/17 - World Renewable Energy Forum (WREF), Denver

05/16 - Rocky Mountain Fleet Management Association (Colorado Chapter) Spring Trade Show, Adams County Fair Grounds, Email for details

05/16 - Bicycling With Traffic for Mutual Benefit, City of Colorado Springs Lunch n Learn, 12:11 -12:49 pm, 30 S Nevada Ave, Suite 102

Colorado Springs

05/17 - Colorado Rides Electric Day, Colorado Springs, Details on page 2

06/01 06/30 - Colorado Springs Bike To Work Month. Details here

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

06/18 - Statewide Stakeholer Meeting, 3:30-5:30 in conjunction with the Government Fleet Expo

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

06/29 Fleet Managers CNG Event, 8:30 am to Noon, Weld County Southwest Service Center (4209 Weld County Road). RSVP to Susan House at

[email protected]

NATIONAL EVENTS & WEBINARS05/14 05/17 - ACT 2012 (Alterative Clean Transportation Expo), Long Beach, CA

05/17 - Propane Forklifts: Reaching New Heights Webinar, 11 am

06-25 - Quarterly Clean Cities EV Webinar, 11 am

07-31 - Workplace Charging: A Critical Infrastructure Gap Webinar

09/18 09/20 - HTUF National Conference & Expo, Charlotte, NC
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