SoCalGas designed, constructed, and now operates a public/private compressed natural gas fueling station with fueling capacity of five (5) gasoline gallon equivalent per minute. The new station is located at SoCalGas Lancaster facility. This station includes a 554 standard cubic feet per minute compressor, two dispensers and one shared 377 gasoline gas equivalent compressed gas storage system. The public access portion of the station is located outside the SoCalGas facility gate and consists of a newly constructed fueling island, a dispenser with one 3,600 pounds per square inch gauge nozzle and one 3,000 per square inch gauge nozzle, a universal card reader, and capacity to add a second dispenser in the future. The publicly accessible dispensers are open 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.
This project station location offers an important addition to the state's compressed natural gas fueling infrastructure network. Station throughput was estimated to displace 28,200 gasoline gallon equivalent per minute per year within the first year of operation, with an associated reduction in greenhouse gases of approximately 76 tons per year. Operational results from the first six months show that actual throughput is nearly twice the expected level. The station has delivered 24,427 gasoline gallon equivalent per minute, which is equivalent to annual throughput of 48,850 gasoline gallon equivalent per minute. Greenhouse gas emission reductions associated with the station's measured throughput were 134 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year. The project was also intended to reduce criteria pollutant emissions. A final goal for the project was to increase awareness of and access to compressed natural gas as a vehicle fuel. Through a station grand opening, media outreach, and a strong local effort to build load at this station by the SoCalGas marketing team, awareness of the station is building.
The maximum station throughput design limit is over two (2) million gasoline gallon equivalent per minute per year; marketing and outreach efforts will continue in order to reach this maximum.
