Natural Gas Cost Savings

CASE STUDY: BUILDING PRODUCTS PLUS

Company Name: Building Products Plus Address:12317 Almeda Rd, Houston, Texas Phone: 713-434-8008 Fleet Director: Dorian Benn; [email protected] BACKGROUND FACTS Annual miles driven: 300,000 Current annual usage of natural gas: 56,500 gasoline gallon equivalent Year natural gas introduced in fleet: 2014 FLEET FACTS Total vehicles: Total by vehicle type: 5 CNG 0 sedans 2 Gasoline 2 light-duty trucks 1 Diesel 6 heavy-duty trucks Refueling facilities onsite: Yes Type: Slow fill, but will be building a public fast fill station in the near future Time to fill: 5 hrs Years using Natural Gas: 1 NATURAL GAS COST SAVINGS Natural Gas Cost: $1.75 Diesel Cost: $2.65 Annual savings to fleet through use of natural gas: $45,000 ADDITIONAL COMMENTS/QUOTES Additional Comments: The benefits of CNG will be easier to realize as more public filling stations are built. TERP and HGAC grants were instrumental in helping us to switch over to CNG. Making grants available for converting heavy trucks to dual fuel while increasing the grant participation in light vehicles which run on CNG would be effective ways to speed up the transition.

Updated 8/2015

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