What is Clean Cities?

Clean Cities is the primary deployment arm of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Program. It is a government-industry partnership designed to reduce petroleum consumption in the transportation sector to advance the nation's economic, environmental, and energy security.

Clean Cities was created in 1993 in response to the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 1992 to provide technical, informational, and financial resources to both regulated fleets and voluntary adopters of alternative fuels. Clean Cities also supports the objectives of the Clean Air Act and its amendments.

Since its inception, Clean Cities has displaced more than 1 billion gasoline gallon equivalents (GGE) of petroleum through the use of alternative fuels and AFVs, idle reduction technologies, hybrid electric and advanced technology vehicles, fuel economy measures, and fuel blends.

What is Central Oklahoma Clean Cities?

Central Oklahoma Clean Cities is one of nearly 90 designated Clean Cities coalitions in urbanized population centers and national parks where government agencies and private companies voluntarily come together under a community-centered program to identify mutual interests and meet the objectives of reducing the use of imported oil, developing regional economic opportunities, and improving air quality.

We have no vested interest in any single alternative fuel or technology, but work to deploy all alternative fuels, advanced vehicle technologies, and energy conservation measures that contribute to the energy, environmental and economic security of the United States.

Central Oklahoma Clean Cities is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce (Oklahoma's State Energy Office), and the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (the association of city, town and county governments within the Central Oklahoma area). The Central Oklahoma Clean Cities program and coaltion are catalysts for new jobs and industry in the region and statewide. The relationship all partners and stakeholders maintain is one that advances not only DOE goals, but also Oklahoma economic development goals.

Why are Clean Cities coalitions “fuel neutral?”

The United States uses approximately 141 billion gallons of gasoline and 45 billion gallons of diesel fuel in vehicles annually. In 2007, the latest year for which alternative fuel use statistics have been compiled, we used approximately 5 billion gallon equivalents of alternative fuels in the transportation sector. These fuels included biodiesel, compressed natural gas, electricity, ethanol, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and small amounts of emerging vehicle fuels still in the early stages of development. No single fuel currently has the capacity to sustainably displace more than a fraction of our petroleum consumption. Therefore, it will take all the fuels and vehicle technological advancements we can muster to provide an energy solution.

Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center

Clean Cities sponsors the Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center where consumers can access a wide range of information and resources to enable the use of alternative fuels and other petroleum reduction technologies.

NEW FUEL-SAVING AND MONEY-SAVING REPORT AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

School Bus Idling Reduction: Project Report & Implementation Guide for Oklahoma School Districts

CLICK HERE FOR GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

Funding available: Oklahoma Dept. of Environmental Quality solicits applications for Diesel School Bus Replacements, Repowers & Retrofits

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U.S. Dept. of Energy

Assn. of Central Oklahoma Governments

Oklahoma Department of Commerce