CR&R Waste and Recycling Services won a grant from the California Energy Commission to develop a compressed natural gas fueling station to support its existing and rapidly expanding private fleet of natural gas-powered solid waste collection vehicles and sweepers. CR&R Waste and Recycling Services constructed and now operates a slow-fill compressed natural gas fueling station at its Material Recovery and Transfer Station in Perris, California. CR&R Waste and Recycling Services' Perris fleet of 150 vehicles serves the communities of Perris, Temecula, San Jacinto, Canyon Lake, Lake Elsinore, Hemet, Murrieta, and Riverside. CR&R Waste and Recycling Services currently operates 25 natural gas heavy-duty vehicles at the Perris site, fueling them at natural gas fueling stations throughout Riverside County. The company required a dedicated fueling station where its vehicles are domiciled to convert its remaining 125 diesel-fueled truck fleet to natural gas.
The new natural gas fueling station project enables CR&R Waste and Recycling Services' largest Southern California fleet operation to adopt natural gas fueling and transition to a lower emission and lower carbon alternative fuel, including the potential future use of renewable natural gas by late 2014 or early 2015. The new station will allow CR&R Waste and Recycling Services to use renewable natural gas in the near future from its planned anaerobic digester facility that will generate renewable natural gas from municipal waste at its Perris facility. The California Energy Commission is supporting this groundbreaking project - one of the first in the nation - with a $4.52 million grant. The anaerobic digester facility is anticipated to be online in 2014, at which point it will produce enough fuel to supply low-carbon renewable natural gas for 60 to 100 trucks daily.
The refueling station is located at 1706 Goetz Road in the City of Perris, California on land owned by CR&R Waste and Recycling Services. It is adjacent to the existing landfill and transfer station and has the capacity to slow fill 50 refuse hauling trucks.
