Seal Beach-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp., which runs natural gas fueling stations for fleets of taxis, buses and other vehicles, is taking over operation of 13 stations in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the company said Thursday.
Clean Energy struck a deal with Britain’s National Grid PLC to take over operation of compressed natural gas vehicle fueling stations in Manhattan, Long Island and New England.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Clean Energy is expected to run and upgrade the stations, which serve National Grid and other trucks as well as taxis and shuttles.
National Grid operates the electricity transmission network in Britain and also provides power to about 5 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island.
Including the National Grid stations, Clean Energy runs 208 natural gas stations for trucks, airport vehicles and other fleets.
The company also has two natural gas plants Texas and Kern County’s Boron and a landfill gas facility in Dallas.
Clean Energy is 40% owned by Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens. He 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.
