CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Transportation

The transportation sector accounts for 27% of U.S. energy consumption and 30% of our greenhouse gas emissions. Keystone works to find answers to our transportation technologies challenges and energy needs that move us toward our policy goals in a sustainable way.

Projects include:

EPA Region 5 Green Diesel Technology Workshop (2006)
The Keystone Center facilitated a two-day workshop for EPA with 120 participants representing trucking and railroad companies and associations, corporate and nonprofit lenders and grant-givers, program coordinators, state and federal air quality regulators, and other regional clean diesel partnerships. The Workshop culminated in recommendations for flexibility of financing in lending programs, combining programs for better lending and operator risk management, developing non-profit organizations to guarantee loans, using existing incentive funds to grow the conversion programs, and offering funding for existing “packages” of retrofits. The conferees agreed that good models exist in various regions of the country that can be adopted and modified by other regions. The Workshop participants also agreed that broad coalitions of interests – with strong leadership by the diesel industry and coordination by government agencies – is essential to expanding diesel retrofit and conversion programs in given states, regions and the nation. A complete summary of the breakout group work is published in “Tools and Incentives for Green Diesel Technology: A Summary of Challenges and Opportunities for Action".
Final report:	Tools and Incentives for Green Diesel Technology: A Summary of Challenges and Opportunities for Action
Contact:	Ed Moreno

Advancing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (2004 - 2005)
Keystone convened a series of roundtable discussions among fuel cell manufacturers, auto manufacturers, hydrogen producers, large consumer and end-use groups, environmental organizations and state and federal government officials to discuss primary barriers and necessary steps to lay the groundwork for deployment of HFCVs when and if R&D breakthroughs make the technology competitive. The participants focused on sustainable production of hydrogen, delivery infrastructure needs, investor risk, and building consumer demand. The Keystone Center released the observations of the participants in a summary brochure designed to inform policy makers at the state and federal level of barriers that must be addressed early to advance HFCVs.
Contact:	Catherine Morris