For this project, the South Coast Air Quality Management District partnered with the Southern California Gas Company to design, construct and operate a public/private compressed natural gas fueling station. This project is also supported by a grant from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee. The new station is located at Southern California Gas Company's Murrieta facility, just over one mile from the Interstate 15/215 interchange, at 25620 Jefferson, Murrieta, CA 92562. This station includes a 125 horsepower, 500 standard cubic feet per minute compressor, two fast-fill dispensers and ten time-fill posts. Eight of the time-fill posts are equipped with four hoses and the other two posts have two hoses for a total of 36 hoses to provide simultaneous overnight fueling. The station shares a 34,000 standard cubic feet of compressed gas storage system. The public access portion of the station is located outside the Southern California Gas Company facility gate and consists of a new fueling island with two dispensers each with two nozzles, rated at minimum five gasoline gallon equivalents per minute, a universal card reader and capacity to add a second compressor in the future. The publicly accessible dispensers are open 24 hours/day, seven days/week.
Operational results from the six-month demonstration period reflect that throughput was 28,813 gasoline gas equivalents, indicating a solid base throughput at the station has been established. Greenhouse gas emission reductions associated with the station's measured throughput during the demonstration period were 100 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. The project also reduced criteria pollutant emissions. A final goal for the project was to increase awareness of and access to compressed natural gas as a transportation fuel. Through a station grand opening event, media outreach and a strong local effort by the Southern California Gas Company marketing team to build load at this station, awareness of the station has been steadily growing.
