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 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 916-327-6636, 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.
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