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Connecticut
Clean Cities Alternative Fuels & Advanced Technology
Vehicles Expo

Mountain
Ridge Events Center -
Wallingford, CT

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
8:00 AM to 9:00 AM Registration
& Continental Breakfast

Program
9:00 AM – 9:05 AM Opening Remarks

Lee
Grannis, Coordinator, Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc.
9:05 AM – 9:25 AM Keynote Address:

Mike Scarpino or Mark Smith (Invited)

Frito-Lay – National Clean Fleet
Partner

DOE National Clean Cities/National
Partners Update
9:25 AM – 9:45 AM Featured Speaker:

Carla York with Bob Schmitz

Overview & Status of the $29M ARRA grant - Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project
9:45 AM – 9:55 AM Mayor Michael Rhody, City of
Meriden  - A City Perspective on the
Benefits of Natural Gas
9:55 AM – 10:10 AM J. Brendan Sharkey, Connecticut House Majority Leader
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM Congressional Round
Table

Invited Members include Senator Richard Blumenthal, Congresswoman Rosa
DeLauro, Congressman John Larson, Congressman Chris Murphy, Congressman Jim
Himes and Congressman
Joe Courtney
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Coffee Break
10:45 AM – 12:45 PM Alternative Fuels in Connecticut –
What’s Happening and What’s Coming…

 

Dan
Shanahan – Control Module Industries (EVSE LLC and Cabaire
LLC subsidiaries)

Watson
Collins – Northeast Utilities

Paul
Kerkhoven – NGVAmerica

Brian
Perone  – Clean
Energy  

Keven Crawford – Vehicle Production Group – New
CNG wheelchair capable light-duty MV-1  

Eve Grenon-Lafontaine – Westport Innovations

Steve
Warren – CTTRANSIT – Fuel Cells and Hybrid Technology

Paul
Hoar – Agrifuels / Biodiesel  
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM Closing Remarks and Awards

Pete
Polubiatko, Coordinator, Norwich Clean Cities and Craig Peters, Coordinator,
Capitol Clean Cities
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch in the EXPO HALL
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Vendor
Expo, Vehicle Display & Ride and Drive

Spend
some quality time visiting vendor tables and looking through the many
Alternative Fuel Vehicles and EVSE equipment that will be on display at the
event! Visit with OEM’s, Dealerships and Fleet Owners. There will be LNG,
CNG, Hydrogen, Plug-in EV’s and PHEV’s and Hybrids! Don’t miss this
opportunity to see dozens of Alternative Fuel Vehicles in one place!
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Off-site Tour of Proton Energy’s
Hydrogen Fueling Station (near the Expo location) An exciting opportunity for
a personal tour of Connecticut’s first and only Hydrogen Station offering
5,000 and 10,000 psi fueling! Check
at the registration desk at the Expo for more details.

First
Responder Training Breakout Sessions
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM First
Responder Information and Equipment Familiarization – LNG, CNG, EV’s

Westport for Kenworth Class 8 LNG Trucks, Vehicle
Products Group for the new MV-1 CNG model deploying now at Metro Taxi and The
Yellow Cab Company, EVSE LLC with EV updates and safety on the growing EVSE
market space – just to name a few!

OEM Vehicles on-site for the day of the show: Kenworth
Class 8 LNG Tractor with Westport Engine, MV-1, Ford Transit Connect, Honda
Civic, GM Volt, Nissan Leaf, and many others – light, medium and heavy-duty
vehicles will be on location!
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM See detail for
7:30 am session – this slot is a repeat of the earlier session for those
unable to attend during the morning.

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

The City of West Haven is celebrating the opening of the cities’ first Compressed Natural Gas fleet fueling station at the headquarters of Metro Taxi. The Clean Energy station will provide fleet and public fueling of CNG and is the first station in Connecticut built by Clean Energy. This opening marks a significant advance forward for Alternative Fuels in the state of Connecticut and the
entire Northeast Region.

Metro Taxi operates the largest taxi fleet in the state and, as part of this new station opening, will also be launching the first in-state fleet of purpose-built, wheelchair friendly,  ADA compliant, low emission taxis known as the “MV-1”, ready to serve the Disability Community.  In addition to the MV-1, Metro Taxi will launch into service CNG-fueled Ford Transit Connects and Honda Civics. By year’s end, Metro Taxi will deploy 110 new CNG taxis as part of the project.

The fleet of 110 taxis will replace over 500,000 gallons of gasoline annually with clean burning CNG. The total project costs of $5.9M represents a significant investment from project partners Clean Energy and Metro Taxi of $4.1M or 69% of the total and the remaining $1.8M from the USDOE.

Join us for our ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the fourth of many alternative fuel initiatives for Connecticut as we
continue to make our state “greener.” The West Haven project is one of the many collaborations under the Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project, awarded to the Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition. This project is funded in part by the USDOE through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

When:
Monday, September 26, 2011

Where:
65 Industry Drive, West Haven

Time:      10:00 a.m. EDT

Click
here to RSVP

or call Carla York at 423.802.6190.

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 Connecticut Clean Cities

Alternative Fuels & Advanced Technology Vehicles Expo

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Program Agenda (Tentative and subject to change)

Mountain Ridge Events Center – Wallingford, CT

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
8:00 am to 9:00 am

Registration & Continental   Breakfast

Program
9:00 am to 9:05 am

 Opening Remarks

 Lee Grannis, Coordinator, Greater New   Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc.
9:05 am to 9:20 am

 Keynote Address:

 Mike Scarpino or Mark Smith (Invited)

 Frito-Lay – National Clean Fleet Partner

 DOE  National Clean Cities/National Partners Update
9:20 to 9:35 am

Featured Speaker:

 Carla York
with Bob Schmitz

 Overview &
Status of the $29M ARRA grant - Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project
9:35 to 10:45 am  Mayor
Michael Rhody, City of Meriden (Invited)

 Congressional Round Table

 Invited Members include Senator
Richard Blumenthal, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Congressman Chris Murphy,
Congressman Jim Himes and Congressman Joe Courtney
10:45 to 11:00

 Coffee Break
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

 Alternative Fuels in Connecticut –

    What’s Happening and   What’s Coming…

 Dan Shanahan – Control Module
Industries (EVSE LLC and Cabaire LLC subsidiaries)

 Watson Collins – Northeast Utilities

 Paul Kerkhoven – NGVAmerica

 Andrew J. Littlefair  – Clean Energy  

 Keven Crawford – Vehicle Products Group
– New CNG wheelchair capable light-duty MV-1  

 Eve Grenon-Lafontaine – Westport   Innovations

 Steve Warren – CTTRANSIT – Fuel Cells and Hybrid Technology

 Paul Hoar – Agrifuels / Biodiesel
1:00 PM to 1:10 PM

 Closing Remarks and Awards

 Pete Polubiatko, Coordinator, Norwich Clean Cities and

 Craig Peters, Coordinator, Capitol Clean Cities
1:10 PM to 2:00 PM

 Lunch in the EXPO HALL

 Remarks from Congressman John Larson (Invited)
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Vendor Expo, Vehicle Display & Ride and Drive

Spend some quality time visiting vendor tables and looking through the many
Alternative Fuel Vehicles and EVSE equipment that will be on display at the
event! Visit with OEM’s, Dealerships and Fleet Owners. There will be LNG, CNG,
Hydrogen, Plug-in EV’s and PHEV’s and Hybrids! Don’t miss this opportunity to
see dozens of Alternative Fuel Vehicles in one place!
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

 Off-site
Tour of Proton Energy’s Hydrogen Fueling Station (near the Expo location) An
exciting opportunity for a personal tour of Connecticut’s first and only
Hydrogen Station offering 5,000 and 10,000 psi fueling!

 Check at the registration desk at the Expo for more details.

First Responder Training Breakout Sessions
7:30 am to 8:30 am

 First Responder Information and Equipment Familiarization – LNG, CNG, EV’s

 Westport for Kenworth Class 8 LNG Trucks, Vehicle Products Group for the new MV-1   CNG model deploying now at Metro Taxi and The Yellow Cab Company, EVSE LLC with
EV updates and safety on the growing EVSE market space – just to name a few!

 OEM
Vehicles on-site for the day of the show: Kenworth Class 8 LNG Tractor with
Westport Engine, MV-1, Ford Transit Connect, Honda Civic, GM Volt, Nissan
Leaf, and many others – light, medium and heavy-duty vehicles will be on
location!
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

 See detail for 7:30 am session – this
slot is a repeat of the earlier session for those unable to attend during the
morning.

 

 

Mark your Calendar now for the 2011 CT Clean Vehicles and Technology Expo to be held Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at the CT Expo Center.

Please visit the Connecticut Clean Cities Expo web site for more information

http://ct-cleancitiesexpo.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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