Trillium to Build 101 CNG Stations by 2016

Trillium CNG said it plans to build 101 publicly assessable Class 8 compressed natural-gas filling stations by 2016.

The stations will be in 29 states across, the country with 14 planned for Texas, eight in Ohio and seven in Florida, according to Trillium. Sites are based on customers' demands that CNG stations be built off of major interstate highways near their key shipping lanes.

The company said it will secure fuel-purchase agreements with anchor customers for all of the stations.

“Natural gas is abundant, U.S.-produced, burns cleaner and significantly less costly than diesel,” Trillium CNG President Mary Boettcher said in a statement.

“The expansion of our CNG fueling infrastructure will make compressed natural gas available to a greater number of fleets traveling busy commercial trucking routes,” she said.

Trillium estimates there are 120,000 natural gas-powered vehicles on the road today in the United States.