Seal Beach-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp., which runs natural gas fueling stations for fleets of taxis, buses and other vehicles, has struck a deal to build and run fueling sites at truck stops.
Clean Energy signed a pact with Knoxville, Tenn.-based Pilot Travel Centers LLC to build and run liquefied natural gas facilities at some Pilot Flying J truck stops across the country.
Pilot runs more than 550 U.S. and Canadian truck stops offering fuel, restaurants, stores, showers and other services.
Clean Energy runs about 200 natural gas fueling stations across the country.
The company develops and runs natural gas stations near airports, utility companies, universities, city yards and other places they’re likely to see a lot of use.
Legendary oilman and corporate raider T. Boone Pickens started Clean Energy as a tiny part of his Dallas-based Mesa Petroleum in the late 1980s. He split it off in the late 1990s.
The company is part of Pickens’ push toward alternative sources of energy.
The deal with Pilot is a bet that more truck operators will opt for natural gas instead of diesel as the federal government looks to cut emissions from heavy vehicles.
In August, regulators sent draft rules to the White House that would cut greenhouse gas emissions from trucks and buses.
