On June 8, the CHBC submitted comments to the CEC regarding the Commissioner Workshop on Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Trends. The CHBC expressed disappointment due to the agenda for this workshop excluding any focus or panelist experts on hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), which has become a common pattern at the Commission and risks creating a

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On May 29, the CHBC sent a letter to Assemblymember Richard Bloom and Budget Subcommittee 3 in response to the Governor’s Proposed Budget and the Revisions proposed by the Administration on May 14, 2020. The CHBC urged the Assembly to consider postponing any decision on 2020-2021 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds (GGRF) until after the next

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On May 26, the CHBC submitted comments to the CPUC regarding the proposed decision adopting short-term actions to accelerate microgrid deployment and related resiliency solutions. The CHBC supported the comments of several parties calling for the Track 1 microgrid proposed decision to be expanded to include fuel cells (and hydrogen-based fuel cells), to ensure more

On May 20, the CHBC sent a letter of support for AB 3163 to Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, Chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The bill would expand the definition of biogas to include the non-combustion thermal conversion of eligible biomass, supporting an important new pathway to creating renewable hydrogen. Read the letter here

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Former CHBC Director and General Manager of Sunline Transit, Richard Cromwell III passed away on February 17, 2020 at the age of 78 in Palm Springs from a lung disease and resulting heart failure. As General Manager of Sunline Transit, Dick began transitioning their bus fleet completely from diesel to natural gas low emission buses,

On May 11, the CHBC sent a letter of support for SB 1352 to Senator Ben Hueso, recognizing that the bill will not advance in the 2020 legislative session due to the COVID-19 pandemic. SB 1352 would establish a renewable gas standard (RGS) by 2030 and help drive the market development for renewable gas, including

On May 5, the CHBC sent a letter to CalEPA Secretary Jared Blumenfeld, requesting the expeditious implementation of SB 1383, which is imperative to reduce short lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), the most imminently dangerous greenhouse gas emissions. Renewable hydrogen can contribute to achieving SB 1383’s SLCP reduction goals by displacing fossil natural gas with a

On April 24, the CHBC submitted comments to the CEC on the EPIC Program Policy and Innovation Coordination Group (PICG) Partnership Area Framework results workshop. The primary points are summarized below: A growing number of financial analysts agree that renewable hydrogen has great potential to be cost competitive as volume increases and that this could

On April 24, the CHBC submitted comments to the CEC on Docket #19-TRAN-02 Zero-Emission Transit Fleet Infrastructure Deployment and focused on the need for the CEC to help balance zero emissions transportation funding to support hydrogen fuel cell electric transit fleet technology deployment. There are currently no funding mechanisms in other California agency programs to insure