The first of 29 Compressed Natural Gas fueling stations opened yesterday in Johnstown at the Cam Tran facility. Cam Tram is Cambria County’s equivalent to Indiana County’s Indigo, the county transit authority.
The new CNG stations are being constructed as part of Pennsylvania’s Public Private Partnership. A company called Trillium CNG will build the 29 stations at transit agencies across the commonwealth at a cost of $94.5 million. Six of the stations, including the one opened yesterday and another planned for Indiana County, will open their CNG stations to the public for refueling their CNG-fueled vehicles. Customers will be charged a 15 percent royalty per gallon to fund the program.
Trillium will build the stations over the next five years and be responsible for maintaining them over a twenty-year period. Twelve more will be built this year. Indigo’s CNG station will be constructed next year.
