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Fuels and Transportation Division

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Perhaps no other population in the world has embraced the automobile as passionately, nor is any other state defined as much by the car, as California. Roughly half of the energy Californians consume is for transportation.

In 2006, Californians consumed an estimated 20 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel on the state's roadways, an increase of nearly 50 percent over the last 20 years. Nearly 26 million registered vehicles operating in California produce about 40 percent of the state's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Energy Commission is concerned with the impact transportation fuels have on our state. The Fuels and Transportation Division was created to focus on transportation energy and alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. The Division's mission is to ensure that adequate and reliable transportation energy is provided to the California transportation sector while balancing economic, public health, safety, and environmental consequences. As shown below, the division is organized into three technical offices.

Division Director
    Mike Smith, Deputy Director
    916-654-4628

Executive Assistant
    Vacant
    916-654-4628


Division Offices

The Fuels and Transportation Division is broken down into three main offices:

Emerging Fuels & Technology Office

The Emerging Fuels & Technology Office assesses and demonstrates the market potential of new transportation technologies and fuels, encourages the widespread use of low-emission alternative fuels in emerging technologies, and evaluates the development risks of and opportunities for using alternative fuels in transportation applications.

Programs in this office included the nation's most ambitious demonstration and commercialization of fuel flexible vehicles - a technology that allows vehicles to operate on methanol, ethanol, gasoline or any combination of these fuels; a public-private partnership program with several major oil companies to distribute fuel methanol at retail outlets throughout California; and the country's largest demonstration of fuel-efficient school buses, nearly 50 percent of are alternatively fueled with natural gas or methanol.

The office is also involved in technology advancement activities that promote further development of cleaner and more energy efficient vehicle technologies.

California Energy Commission
Emerging Fuels & Technology Office
1516 Ninth Street, MS-27
Sacramento, CA 95814
Main Phone: 916-654-4634

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Fossil Fuels Office

The Fossil Fuels Office serves the citizens of California by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data provided by the petroleum industry. The office is currently involved in the most pertinent and visible energy issues taking place in the state of California. The staff in the office is very active; aiding and educating citizens with current fuel price and supply information, as well as providing reports, testimony, presentations, data, and support to the Governor's office, state and federal agencies, cities, counties, community colleges, universities, bureaus, and the public at large.

This office performs analytical activities. Topics analyzed are developed through legislative mandates, research, or in response to issues related to transportation fuels, supply, price, and demand. The office publishes a 20-year transportation fuel supply and demand forecast biannually as part of the Integrated Energy Policy Report process.

California Energy Commission
Fossil Fuels Office
1516 Ninth Street, MS-41
Sacramento, CA 95814
Main Phone: 916-654-4634

  • Office Manager: Jim Page
  • Petroleum Forecasting Unit: Vacanat
  • Petroleum Reporting Unit: Vacant

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Special Projects Office

The Special Projects Office coordinates many of the Energy Commission's more broad and multi-disciplinary programs. Staff in this office work on a variety of energy issues including the LNG working group, global climate change, bioenergy action plan, contingency planning, and export and border energy.

The LNG working group's mission is to establish close communication among and support for agencies potentially involved in the permitting process of any LNG facility in California.

Under the Global Climate Change program, staff in the office participate in and coordinate many activities including the Climate Action Team, California Climate Action Registry, California Climate Change Advisory Committee, Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and the West Coast Governors' Global Warming Initiative.

The Bioenergy Interagency Working Group, composed of state agencies with important biomass connections, is developing an integrated and comprehensive state policy and action plan on biomass, which includes electricity, natural gas and petroleum substitution potential.

In the event of an emergency, fuel may need to be directed to emergency support functions such as police, fire or ambulance services. In such an event, this office will coordinate the state's Emergency Fuel Allocation Program, where fuel is quickly delivered to needed areas. The office also maintains the California Energy Shortage Contingency Plan to respond to any emergency or disaster, ensuring adequate supplies of energy for public health, safety and welfare.

Another major program in the office is the Energy Technology Export Program which includes a variety of activities including the International Energy Fund, trade missions, orientation visits, market and trade analysis, and surveying California energy companies.


California Energy Commission
Special Projects Office
1516 Ninth Street, MS-23
Sacramento, CA 95814
Main Phone: 916-651-0566

  • Special Projects Office Manager: Vacant
  • Energy Emergency Planning & LNG Unit Supervisor: Vacant
  • International & Local Programs Unit Supervisor: Al Estrada

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