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Clean Air Northeast States selected to receive over $22.5 million in DERA National Grants

As part of the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) program, 4 Clean Air Northeast states have been selected to receive grants to reduce emissions from existing diesel engines through clean diesel retrofits or replacements. Each project is detailed below.

All selected grants are listed on the DERA website.

Connecticut

  • Connecticut Maritime Foundation, Inc.
    • Amount Awarded: $1,999,953
    • Fleet: Freight – Port
    • Description: this project will replace two Tier 0 propulsion engines with two Tier 4 certified propulsion engines and replace two Tier 0 auxiliary generator set engines with two Tier 3 auxiliary generator sets in a single tugboat.

Massachusetts

  • Columbia-Willamette Clean Cities Coalition, Inc.
    • Amount Awarded: $1,554,999
    • Fleet: Industrial – Port
    • Description: this project will replace three excavators and five dumpers/tenders with Tier 4 ultra-low sulfur diesel excavators and dumpers/tenders.
  • City of Boston
    • Project #1
      • Amount Awarded: $2,000,000
      • Fleet: School Bus
      • Description: this project will retrofit battery-electric engines on fifteen diesel school buses and install fifteen direct current fast chargers and supporting infrastructure.
    • Project #2
      • Amount Awarded: $2,000,000
      • Fleet: School Bus
      • Description: this project will replace ten class 7 diesel school buses with 10 battery-electric school buses; and install ten direct current fast chargers and supporting infrastructure.

New Jersey

  • The Port Authority Of New York And New Jersey
    • Amount Awarded: $2,500,000
    • Fleet: Port
    • Description: this project will replace one hundred 2009 or older port drayage trucks with one hundred newer port drayage trucks.
  • South Jersey Port Corporation
    • Amount Awarded: $228,037
    • Fleet: Port
    • Description: this project will replace one diesel-powered 35,500-pound forklift with one electrically powered 36,000-pound forklift.
  • Leonardo Academy Inc
    • Project #1
      • Amount Awarded: $3,498,847
      • Fleet: Port
      • Description: this project will replace nine diesel Tier 3 Straddle Carriers with Electric-Hybrid Straddle Carriers.
    • Project #2
      • Amount Awarded: $1,239,117
      • Fleet: Port
      • Description: this project will replace nine diesel Tier 4 Yard Trucks with nine electric vehicle Yard Trucks and corresponding Inductive Charging Truck Pads.

New York

  • New York City And Lower Hudson Valley Clean Communities, Inc
    • Amount Awarded: $1,437,814
    • Fleet: Airport
    • Description: this project will replace thirty non-road airport ground support equipment vehicles with thirty new zero-emission battery-electric non-road airport ground support equipment vehicles.
  • Connecticut Maritime Foundation, Inc.
    • Amount Awarded: $6,215,254
    • Fleet: Port – Freight
    • Description: this project will replace twenty-six uncontrolled, Tier 1, and Tier 2 propulsion engines with twenty-six Tier 3 certified propulsion engines; and replace four auxiliary generator set engines with four Tier 3-powered auxiliary generator sets.