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Trillium Awarded Two New Orange County Transit Projects
OCTA Board Votes to Award CNG Contracts to Trillium
Salt Lake City, UT - May 22, 2007 - Orange County residents will soon be breathing
cleaner air following the Orange County Transportation Authority's Board decision
to install two Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling facilities that will
increase their ability to operate more clean air buses.
At a May 14, 2007 meeting, the Board of the
Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) voted to award Trillium a
contract for the design, installation and maintenance of two CNG fueling
facilities. The projects will be located at the Authority's Anaheim and Garden Grove Bus Bases.
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About 175 CNG buses will
operate at each of these two Bus Bases, in addition to the fleet of 250 planned
for Santa Ana,
making OCTA one of the largest natural gas transit bus fleets in the country.
The projects were awarded
after a competitive bid process. As noted in the Board report, "The evaluation
committee concluded that Trillium's proposal provided excellent qualifications,
competitive pricing, and best complied with all technical requirements
identified by OCTA."
"This award comes on the
heels of our on-time and on-budget completion of the CNG fueling station at
OCTA's Santa Ana Bus Base. We worked very hard to make that project a success
and we are pleased to have earned more business from OCTA," noted Mark Barton,
President of Trillium.
The Board approval
authorized up to $24,100,000 for the construction of the facilities and 10
years of operation and maintenance.
Trillium's fueling systems
will include three Ariel compressors at each Bus Base. Each compressor will
have a flow rate of 2,000 standard cubic feet per minute of CNG fuel and will
be powered by a 600 horsepower electric motor. Both facilities will be capable of
fueling 3 buses at a time, with fuel times of no more than 5 minutes per bus.
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About Trillium
Trillium is a Salt Lake
City-based provider of CNG fueling services specializing in transit bus
operations. The company currently provides fuel for more than 1,750 transit
buses per day, delivering more than 35 million gasoline gallon equivalents of
CNG per year. Trillium customers include
Los Angeles Metro Transit, Orange County Transportation Authority, New York City
Transit, MTA Bus Company in New York City, Ft. Worth Transportation Authority, United
Parcel Service, Los Angeles Unified School District, San Francisco Airport, the
City of Berkeley, CA; the City of Scottsdale, AZ and other fleets and private
customers in and around Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix.
Trillium USA, LLC is a wholly-owned affiliate of Wagner
& Brown Ltd, an independent oil and gas exploration company based in Midland, Texas. |
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Trillium
Jennifer de Tapia
Director of Market Services
Email: jdetapia@trilliumusa.com
Phone: 800.920.1166
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