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vehicles by 2014. Meanwhile, in Arizona, the Phoenix city council has approved plans to buy 120 buses that run on CNG. The new buses will carry a total price tag of $61 million and should arrive beginning this fall and into the spring of 2014. A spokesman for the city’s public transit department estimated that the switch to CNG will save the city $4 million. And in February, Dallas rolled out the first of hundreds of new CNG-powered buses. The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board approved the purchase of as many as 452 CNG coaches through 2015—a $210 million contract—and several of the buses will be introduced each week as vehicles become available from the manufacturer, North American Bus Industries. In two other cities—Tampa, Fla., and Bloomfield, Mich.—CNG also is playing a more prominent role. Tampa rolled out the first of five new CNG solid-waste trucks in February, and it plans to buy five more by 2014 for a projected savings of $152,000 annually. In Bloomfield, All American Waste just rolled out its first naturalgas powered truck. Twenty-one more CNG trucks have been ordered at a cost of about $315,000 each, part of the company’s plan to own the largest fleet of trash-collecting trucks in Michigan. —G.J. need to know Getting Even Greener have been emitted. “Technology is ready to capture the CO2 that gas-fired power plants produce and [we] are ready to develop those plants,” Donald Paul Hodel, Summit’s chairman emeritus and former U.S. secretary of energy, said in a news release. These plants will combine carbon-capture tech- C E L E B R AT I N G YEARS Your Committed Partner for 75 Years Sequestering carbon from gas-fueled electric plants n atural gas is playing a growing role in electricity generation, and now two companies are working together to bring carbon emission-control technology to gas-fueled electric plants. The Summit Power Group, a developer of low-carbon power projects, and the Linde Group technology company report that they have developed commercial-scale natural gasfired power plants that will capture up to 90 percent of carbon dioxide that would otherwise Quality Compression Fittings www.NORMACnow.com • Phone: 630.232.8111 april 2013 AmericAn GAs 11 http://www.NORMACnow.com http://www.NORMACnow.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Gas - April 2013

American Gas - April 2013
Contents
President's Message
Subject Index
LNG Sports Car: Racing Toward Acceptance
Digest
Issues
Updates
Need to Know
By the Numbers
People and Places
Water, Water Anywhere
Asia
State House
State House
Elm Street
LNG: Riding the Wave
Beyond the Headlines
Profile
Crisis Management
Jobs
Buyer's Guide: Mapping and GIS
Marketplace
Headway

American Gas - April 2013