Cities & States Fuel Renewable Diesel Growth
In early May of 2024, the New Jersey Township of North Brunswick conducted an initial trial of renewable diesel y fueling the township's DPW trucks with Neste MyRenewable Diesel. Now, all of North Brunswick's public fleet, including school busses, fire trucks, and backup generators are powered by renewable diesel. This move is projected use around 50,000 gallons a year and result in a reduction of GHG emissions by 470 tons annually.
North Brunswick joins the City of New York in moving their municipal fleet to renewable diesel. New York anticipates 100% of the city's heavy-duty fleet will operate on renewable diesel by the end of this calendar year (2024). The switch in NYC will replace up to 16 million gallons of petroleum-based fuel annually, which will cut 140,000 tons of carbon dioxide pollution per year, and positions NYC to meet its goal of halving 2015 fleet emissions by 2025.
North Brunswick and New York City are ahead of the game on the East Coast, but on the West Coast of the US, California has been leading the charge on renewable diesel, followed closely by Oregon, Washington (state), Idaho and Montana.
We wrote an article for this months issue of Oil & Energy Magazine detailing the growth of renewable diesel and the Cities and States pushing the market forward. You can read that article in its entirety here:
