Advanced BioFuels USA

(ACT News/Trillium)  … The Love’s Family of Companies understands that fleets have a need for a varied portfolio of fuels and not only provides that flexibility and savings to trucks fueling at Love’s Travel Stops but also puts their money where their mouth is and fuels its own fleet with renewable, low-carbon, alternative fuels. 

Gemini Motor Transport has been the primary fuel hauler and carrier for Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores since 2001. Gemini’s 1,450 professional drivers combine for more than 100 million miles annually across the U.S. Utilizing a network of 950 trucks, Gemini distributes millions of gallons of fuel to more than 560 Love’s locations nationwide. Gemini’s expansive fleet fueled with a portfolio of alternative fuels including compressed natural gas (CNG), renewable natural gas (RNG), biodiesel, and renewable diesel. Implementing this array of alternative fuels allows the Gemini fleet to choose the fuel that works best for each situation, displacing more than 14 million diesel gallon equivalent of conventional diesel annually without sacrificing performance, reliability, or efficiency.

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“Reliability, cost effectiveness and fuel efficiency are key for every truck in the Gemini fleet regardless of the powertrain. We have worked closely with manufacturers to ensure we have the right trucks powered with the most efficient fuel for every route and we are seeing the benefits across the board including improved efficiency, and reduced fuel costs all with less emissions,” said Brent Bergevin, vice president of transportation for Love’s.

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RNG is fuel produced by capturing and cleaning fugitive methane emitted from the decomposition of organic waste, produced by wastewater treatment plants, dairy farms, landfills, and other sources. It is an ultra-low-emission drop-in replacement for fossil CNG for use in all medium- and heavy-duty applications including goods movement, transit, and refuse. Depending on the feedstock, RNG can even be a carbon-negative fuel as measured by its carbon intensity value (or the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions emitted from production, transportation, refining and consumption of the fuel). RNG sourced from dairy waste, for instance, can have carbon intensity ratings that are 200% to 300% lower than even a battery electric vehicle powered by renewable energy such as solar or wind.  

Gemini began fueling its natural gas fleet with RNG in 2019 and is working with Trillium, a member of the Love’s Family of Companies, to grow its RNG fuel portfolio. The goal is to meet 100% of its fleet demand for CNG, both inside and outside California, with RNG.

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Gemini also works to reduce the impact of its diesel-powered fleet with the use of biodiesel and renewable diesel. Made from a diverse array of feedstocks, biodiesel and renewable diesel fuel are renewable, clean-burning replacements for traditional fossil diesel. Both can be used without vehicle modifications and don’t require additional investments in refueling or recharging infrastructure or the purchase of new trucks or engines. Gemini uses biodiesel blends of up to 20% (B20) and together with renewable diesel fuel makes up almost 10% of the fleet’s diesel fuel consumption.   READ MORE

Decarbonizing Medium & Heavy-Duty Fleets | Episode 32 (Fuels Institute; includes VIDEO)

Excerpt from Fuels Institute:  As the world works to decarbonize the transportation energy sector, headlines tend to focus on the light-duty vehicle market. In reality, medium and heavy-duty trucks represent less than 10% of the global vehicle market, but contribute a significant share of greenhouse gas emissions to the sector’s overall emissions total. John Eichberger, Executive Director of the Fuels Institute, sat down with Kimberly Okafor, Strategic Business Development Manager at Trillium, to learn how they are working to meet the challenge of decarbonizing the heavy-duty sector while maintaining the needs of today’s customers.  READ MORE/WATCH VIDEO