Santa Barbara MTD Is Done with Everyday Diesel

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December 5, 2019

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by Michael Bates (NGT News) Santa Barbara MTD, the transit agency providing bus and shuttle service in greater Santa Barbara, Calif., says it has stopped purchasing petroleum diesel and will now fuel its diesel bus fleet with renewable diesel.

Noting that the transition requires no infrastructure changes and that the new fuel can be dispensed into the buses’ existing fuel tanks, the agency explains that the renewable diesel it sources is refined from a mix of more than 10 different wastes and residues and various vegetable oils. About 92% of this fuel comes from a combination of used cooking oil, waste animal fat, waste fish fat and residue oils.

Renewable diesel represents an 80% reduction in emissions and carbon intensity versus petroleum diesel. Also, the carbon intensity of renewable diesel is about one-third of that of a battery-electric vehicle charging on the California grid.

Santa Barbara MTD’s board of directors set a goal in November 2018 to transition the entire fleet to 100% battery-electric by 2030. The agency says the transition to renewable diesel speeds up a reduction in emissions fleet-wide and represents an opportunity to green the remaining diesel fleet. READ MORE

MTD TRANSITIONS DIESEL FLEET TO RENEWABLE DIESEL (edhat)

California’s Santa Barbara switches public fleet to renewable diesel (Biofuels International)

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