Truck

Heavy truck manufacturer Peterbilt Motors Co. has rolled out three natural gas-fueled models equipped with the Cummins Westport ISL-G engine, which offers a 320 hp rating and 1,000 ft-lbs. of torque. The vehicles run on either compressed or liquefied natural gas. “Our natural gas Models 384, 365 and 320 demonstrate our industry leadership in developing products that will reduce harmful emissions and provide exceptional fuel efficiency,” said Bill Jackson, Peterbilt general manager.

About 100 feet of paper was loaded onto a truck and carried to regulators last Monday as AES Corp. formally filed its application for the Sparrows Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which would be built at the site of a former steel mill on a peninsula that juts out into Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore, MD. But with virtually no local political support for the 1.5 Bcf/d project, the hardest work may still be yet to come for AES.

About 100 feet of paper was loaded onto a truck and carried to regulators Monday as AES Corp. formally filed its application for the Sparrows Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which would be built at the site of a former steel mill on a peninsula that juts out into Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore, MD. But with virtually no local political support for the 1.5 Bcf/d project, the hardest work may still be yet to come for AES.

PG&E Corp. last week made another stride to bring moreelectricity generating projects online in an attempt to provideCalifornia with an adequate power supply in the future. The companyentered into an agreement with Waste Management Inc. to replace 120diesel-fueled garbage collection trucks with natural gas-fueledversions in order to offset the emissions of a proposed 500 MWnatural gas-fired power plant to be located in San Diego County.