What's New List Serve Post Display
Below is the List Serve Post you selected to display.
omb -- Draft Technology Assessment for Transport Refrigerators Posted
Posted: 05 Aug 2015 14:39:16
If you are a small business who owns or operates reefers or refrigerated transport, this notice concerns you. The California Air Resources Board (ARB/Board) announces the release of the draft document “Technology Assessment: Transport Refrigerators.” This draft technology assessment examines technologies projected for development over the next five to ten years that can be applied to transport refrigeration systems and insulated cargo vans to reduce fuel consumption, greenhouse gases (GHG) and criteria pollutant emissions (e.g. nitrogen oxides and particulate matter). Such technologies support ARB's long term objective of transforming the on- and off-road mobile source fleet into one utilizing zero and near-zero emission technologies to meet air quality and climate change goals. Sources of information used in the draft assessment include an extensive list of published reports, research papers, and documented conversations with technology experts. The draft assessment discusses each technology by providing a basic description, the current state of development or commercial readiness, economics, potential emission reductions, advantages, and key performance parameter issues and deployment challenges. The draft technology assessment can be viewed and downloaded from the ARB's technology and fuels assessment webpage at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/tech/techreport/tru_07292015.pdf We encourage interested parties to submit comments on the draft technology assessment through the technology and fuels assessment web page for public comments at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/tech/techreport/comments.htm. We request to receive comments within 30 days of the posting of this draft assessment, if possible. If you have questions regarding the draft technology assessment, please contact Mr. Rodney Hill, Staff Air Pollution Specialist, at 916-327-5636, or email to Rodney.Hill@arb.ca.gov. In April 2015, ARB staff released a Sustainable Freight Discussion Document which discussed a potential regulation to limit stationary operation of fossil-fueled transport refrigeration units (TRU) for cold storage and incentives to install infrastructure at affected locations to facilitate compliance strategies. This potential near-term GHG control measure is only in the preliminary concepts phase, and workshops to discuss the concepts with stakeholders will begin fall 2015. For more information about a potential near-term GHG control measure for TRUs, please visit ARB’s website at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cold-storage/cold-storage.htm For more information on the Sustainable Freight Discussion Document, please see ARB’s Sustainable Freight website at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/gmp/sfti/sfti.htm Background: The technology assessments were discussed at workshops in September 2014 and at the December 2014 ARB Board meeting. More information on the assessments is available at ARB’s website at http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/tech/tech.htm . An overview of the technology assessments was released in April 2014 and is available on ARB’s website at http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/tech/report.htm. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.