The Potential to Build Current Natural Gas Infrastructure to Accommodate the Future Conversion to Near-Zero Transportation Technology

Amy Myers Jaffe , Rosa Dominguez-Faus , Joan Ogden, Nathan C. Parker, Daniel Scheitrum, Zane McDonald, Yueyue Fan , Tom Durbin , George Karavalakis, Justin Wilcock, Marshall Miller and Christopher Yang

Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series from Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis

Abstract: The emergence of natural gas as an abundant, inexpensive fuel in the United States has highlighted the possibility that natural gas could play a significant role in the transition to low carbon fuels. Natural gas is often cited as a “bridge” to low carbon fuels in the transportation sector. Major corporations are already investing billions of dollars to build infrastructure to feed natural gas into the U.S. trucking industry and expand the use of natural gas in fleets. In the state of California, natural gas fueling infrastructure is expanding, especially in and around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The use of natural gas fueled medium and heavy duty fleets is currently on an upswing. The authors examine the precise natural gas infrastructure that is economically and technologically synergistic for both natural gas and renewable natural gas in the near-term, and alternative fuels like renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen in the long term. In particular, the authors examine optimum paths for developing infrastructure in the near-term that will accommodate alternative fuels once they become available at the commercial scale. The original design of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) provides time for the development of advanced, near zero technologies. The authors consider the credits from the LCFS in our analysis. View the NCST Project Webpage

Keywords: Engineering; Fuel cell vehicles; Hydrogen fuels; Natural gas; Natural gas buses; Natural gas distribution systems; Natural gas pipelines; Natural gas vehicles; Service stations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-03-01
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