TRC reaches $2 billion in industrial ZEV funding

Consulting agency TRC has made a reputation for itself within the clear trucking house each for managing the ACT Expo and serving to industrial fleets navigate the more and more complicated world of ZEV incentives. This week, the corporate reached a significant milestone: $2 billion in funding!

Over the previous couple of years, GNA (which was acquired by TRC in 2023) has developed and submitted greater than 650 profitable grant functions and funding requests on behalf of its purchasers, serving to them to realize their environmental and sustainability targets whereas saving cash on complete price of possession within the course of.

“We really feel privileged to help forward-thinking firms to realize their targets to develop and reveal the industrial use of a number of the most cutting-edge and superior applied sciences within the market at this time,” mentioned Erik Neandross, President, Clear Transportation Options at TRC. “Managing multi-million-dollar grant functions might be daunting, however our staff’s tenacity and data ensures that our purchasers will efficiently obtain their aims whereas they continue to be targeted on their core enterprise actions.”

Noteworthy tasks that obtained funding via TRC’s assist embody:

• Over $40 million for the JETSI Challenge, which deployed 100 zero-emission Class 8 vans throughout Southern California to operationalize zero-emission freight motion at scale.
• $44 million for Volvo LIGHTS, an initiative that applied a blueprint for the whole ecosystem wanted to efficiently deploy industrial battery-electric vans.
• $95 million for the Nevada Gold Mines 200 MW Photo voltaic Challenge, accelerating the decarbonization of mining operations in Northern Nevada.
• $15.4 million for the Frito-Lay Zero and Close to Zero Emission Freight Facility (ZANZEFF) Challenge in Modesto, CA, to deploy an array of commercially accessible and pre-commercial ZE and NZE applied sciences in addition to renewable energy technology and vitality storage.
• $5 million for Mariposa County Useful resource Conservation District to develop, reveal and deploy environmentally and economically sustainable biomass-to-energy techniques for the forest and meals waste sectors.
• $6.5 million for Foster Farms for tasks to switch parking yards with EV charging parking stalls and implement emissions-reducing mechanical upgrades at 5 Foster Farms crops.
• $4.4 million for Otter Tail Energy Firm to boost grid resiliency with next-generation expertise.

TRC’s efforts have helped purchasers to faucet funding from sources akin to Volkswagen Settlement Funds, Federal Freeway Administration, DOE, South Coast Air High quality Administration District (AQMD), California Air Sources Board (CARB), California Vitality Fee (CEC), Low Carbon Gas Commonplace (LCFS) applications, and others.

Electrek’s Take

Joe Annotti is a senior govt devoted to scrub transportation and vitality independence initiatives at TRC, and has been a terrific visitor on a number of of my podcasts – most not too long ago Fast Cost on the Electrek Each day channel. You possibly can take a look at that episode, above, then tell us what you consider TRC’s fleet decarbonization efforts within the feedback.

SOURCE | IMAGES: TRC; photograph by the creator.