Cottage Grove, OR converts city fleet to biodiesel

In Oregon, the city of Cottage Grove is converting its city vehicle fleet to biodiesel. The blend was not specified. The city is also implementing a voluntary program in which residents can purchase their energy from renewable resources.

The conversion follows a string of conversions to biodiesel announced in recent weeks.

Last week in Pennsylvania, five school districts announced a switch to B20 biodiesel.
The announcement followed from an switch to B20 by New York’s Oneonta Public Transit buses for all five of its bus routes, and the conversion by Fresh Direct of its fleet of 150 delivery trucks to B5 in February 2008.

Recently, Montclair. NJ switched its 70-plus diesel-powered fleet and off-road equipment to B20 biodiesel. In New Hampshire, Cranmore Mountain Resort has reported that its fleet of trucks, which operate on B20, have experienced no problems relating to the effect of cold on biodiesel, at temperatures as low as minus 20 Fahrenheit. Cranmore is one of two New Hampshire ski resports that have converted to biodiessel. The other is Mount Sunapee Resort, which converted its snow grooming and snow removal equipment to B20 biodiesel, and converted its hearing systems to B5. In Maryland, state highway officials said that they would convert snowplows to a B5 blend this season, and expect to convert their equipment to B20 in 2008-09.

The City of Portland’s Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) went into effect this year and Oregon’s RFS goes into effect January 1, 2008. The Oregon RFS calls for E10 and B5 blending after regional ethanol and biodiesel production reached 40Mgy and 15Mgy, respectively.

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