Webinar on Renewable Diesel and Biodiesel Blends for Fleets – Thursday, February 8, 2018 | 1:30-2:20 pm CST

What can you do to meet sustainability goals and reduce fuel costs? Louisiana Clean Fuels and the Center for Sustainable Energy invites you to a free webinar where you will learn the secrets behind achieving both, utilizing renewable diesel and biodiesel blends. The webinar will cover the fuel efficiency, cost, availability, OEM approval, and quality aspects of the fuels. Project implementation will also be covered.

Click here to register. Free registration for Clean Cities stakeholders. No code required.

Your Presenter: Troy Shoen, Sr. Manager of Marketing at REG | https://www.regi.com

Troy Shoen has been an expert in marketing various aspects of the advanced biofuels industry for the past seven years. For six years he managed marketing efforts for a biofuels feedstock and animal feed ingredient company before joining Renewable Energy Group as Senior Manager, Marketing in July 2015. He currently leads the efforts to promote the economic and value-added benefits of integrating biodiesel into distributor and retailer fuel programs. Troy holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Iowa in addition to Bachelor Degrees in Journalism and Communication Studies.

For more information, please contact Michael Terreri at michael.terreri@energycenter.org.

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KDHE Requests Input on VW Settlement by Dec 31, 2017

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is seeking public input on VW Mitigation Trust activities in Kansas. Input from this Request for Information will be used in the development of the required mitigation trust plan. Please submit your comments via e-mail by 5:00 pm December 31, 2017 to: kdhe.ksvwsettlement@ks.gov. More details on the settlement and other options for submission of information are specified in the request for information document.
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KSBC Biodiesel Day – Jan 10, 2018

The Kansas Biodiesel Consortium is pleased to announce its first day long convention.

Thinking about using biodiesel in your operation? Attend the KSBC Biodiesel Day at the Maner Conference Center, Kansas ExpoCentre, Capitol Plaza Hotel, Topeka, KS, on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 9:00am – 3:00 pm. Doors open at 8:30 am via the 17th Street entrance. Lunch provided.

Find out about implementing biodiesel into fleets, biodiesel properties, and production basics.  Hear about biodiesel activities at Kansas colleges. Meet with other biodiesel professionals from around the state. Learn about the history, challenges, and benefits of biodiesel production in Kansas.

RSVP by January 1, 2017, by clicking here  or by email to: hall@kansassoybeans.org

Presented by the Kansas Biodiesel Consortium

Biodiesel Day Agenda

Biodiesel Day January 10-2018

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GRAND OPENING for Mid-Kansas CNG Station

On Friday, November 10, Mid-Kansas CNG celebrated the Grand Opening of a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station at 636 Thompson Street in Kingman, with a ribbon cutting by the Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce and a luncheon. Owners, Mark Molitor and Mattie Giefer, hosted the event, along with representatives from Central Kansas Clean Cities (CKCC) and KGS, which featured demonstrations of CNG refueling and a tour of the station’s compressor system. The station is open to the public 24 hours daily for refueling of CNG vehicles from autos to tractor-trailers.

Mattie Giefer was looking for a cheaper fuel option for his fleet of vehicles with GCI Construction and turned to Mark Molitor, who is in the oil & gas business, for a solution. Together they formed Mid-Kansas CNG to fulfill the need for natural gas fueling in the Kingman area. After consultation with area trucking companies, a location on the US-54/US-400 corridor was selected. The station will fill a CNG fueling gap between Wichita, 50 miles to the east, and Garden City and Liberal, both about 175 miles west. Molitor and Giefer believe that CNG is a more economical and better environmental choice for transportation. They are open to inquiries about fleet fueling on the site.

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Energy Efficiency and PACE as Economic Development for Local Communities – Nov 16, 2017 10:30-1

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Time/Date:

Thursday, November 16, 2017 from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM (CST)

Location:

MARC Boardroom | 600 Broadway Blvd #200 | Kansas City, MO 64105

Description:

Energy Efficiency and Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) provide increased support for strong local economic development. This event will provide economic developers and municipal leaders information on Kansas City Power & Light’s energy efficiency offerings, specifically who can take advantage of them and what the expected local impact of these offerings can mean for your community. Additionally, hear about PACE’s impacts on your community and how you can use it to increase economic development locally. Join us for this free event!

Speakers:

PACE for commercial properties

  •    Show Me PACE – Commercial PACE (Josh Campbell)
  •    Missouri Clean Energy District – Residential PACE (John Harris)

Energy Efficiency for commercial properties

  •    Kansas City Power and Light (Kevin Brannan)

PACE Case Studies

  •    Municipal Speakers (Dennis Murphey, City of Kansas City; and City of Independence invited)
  •    Residential PACE (John Maslowski, Renovate America)
  •    Commercial PACE (Rob Shear, PACE Sage, and property owner)
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Grand Opening for CNG Station in Kingman, KS Planned for November 10

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Kingman, Kansas has a new fuel station for clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG). Mid-Kansas CNG operates the station at 636 N. Thompson. The station is open to the public now however, the official Grand Opening will be held at 11 am on November 10, 2017.  It will include a ribbon cutting by Stacey Meireis, Executive Director of the Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce, and representatives from KGS, Central Kansas Clean Cities and Kansas City Regional Clean Cities Coalitions.

Mattie Giefer was looking for a cheaper fuel option for his fleet of vehicles with GCI Construction and turned to Mark Molitor, who is in the oil & gas field, for a solution. Together they formed Mid-Kansas CNG to fulfill the need for natural gas fueling in the Kingman area.  After consulting with trucking companies, they selected a site on the US-54/US-400 corridor. The station will fill a fueling gap between Wichita, 50 miles to the east, and Garden City and Liberal, both about 175 miles west. Molitor and Giefer believe that CNG is a more economical and better environmental choice for transportation. They are open to inquiries about fleet fueling on the site.

 

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School Fleet Alternative Fuels Summit Nov 15 2017

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TIME CHANGE. To bring you all the latest developments, we are starting at 9:00 a.m.

Clean, alternative fuels are the future of school district transportation. Propane, natural gas and electric vehicle options are becoming mainstream, and Kansas City districts are already committing to these alternatives to diesel buses. Alternative fuels give school districts a new approach to long-term substantial fuel savings, while protecting students from the risks of diesel emissions.

What: 2017 School Fleet Alternative Fuels Summit

When: Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

Where: Blue Springs School District’s Bartow Administrative Center, 1801 Northwest Vesper Street, Blue Springs, MO

Who: School district fleet managers, superintendents and district purchasing professionals.

Guest speakers will cover the latest in alt-fuel technology, reports from districts already using alternative fuels, information on financing alt fuel projects, and a tour of the Blue Springs District’s compressed natural gas fueling and fleet facilities. Lunch is included as part of the program. See full tentative agenda.

Register for this free event.

Contact David Albrecht at MEC with any questions.

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Feedback Requested for Clean Air Action Plan

Final week! Survey closes Monday, November 6, 2017

If you work or reside in the Kansas City metro, you are invited to take part in a virtual workshop to update the region’s Clean Air Action Plan. The MARC Air Quality program is in the process of updating the plan and your feedback is requested. The purpose of the plan is to set forth a variety of voluntary strategies to reduce ground-level ozone pollution. Current strategies encompass education, green infrastructure, mobility options (bike, ped, transit), diversified energy sources (such as alternative fuels), green building, etc.

Your feedback will help update these strategies and provide a sense of relative importance of each.

Please take a look at this worksheet which will walk you through an exercise to compare two strategy areas at a time (28 total comparisons). I recommend reading through the list A-F and then compare the letters vertically in each row, highlighting the one you think is more important. Question 1 in the survey will ask you to report your results.

Following this exercise, there are a series of open-ended questions, 4 sets of the same questions, each focusing on 4-5 different strategy areas. The entire exercise takes about 20 minutes. If you can, please fill out the whole thing – take a break if you have to!

SURVEY: http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07eelv6vjij7mddl39/start

In the first page of the survey, you have the ability to identify your affiliations. In the “Other” box, please write in Clean Cities, so that MARC can aggregate responses by Clean Cities members and stakeholders.

If you have any questions, please direct them to Doug Norsby, MARC Air Quality Planner.

Thank you in advance for your time in completing the survey exercise.

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Volkswagen Settlement Presentations

Catch up on news about the Volkswagen Settlement with these presentations! Included are an overview of the dispute, a breakdown of settlement funding for Missouri and Kansas, as well as a timeline regarding the use of the Environment Mitigation Trust.

Overview KS 9-8-2017 for web

KS VW Presentation

MO VW Presentation

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