Mission and Background
What is Clean Cities?
Fact Sheet (PDF 2 MB) Must have Adobe Reader. Clean Cities: Goals, Strategies, and Top Accomplishments (PDF 3 MB)
The mission of Clean Cities is to advance the energy, economic, and environmental security of the United States by supporting local decisions to adopt practices that reduce the use of petroleum in the transportation sector. Clean Cities coordinators lead local geographically-based coalitions composed of local fleets, fuel providers, and decision-makers that focus on a united goal: petroleum reduction. There are nearly 90 coalitions covering areas where 229 million U.S. citizens liveapproximately 78% of the country's total population. Since its inception in 1993, Clean Cities and its stakeholders have displaced more than 2 billion gallons of petroleum.
While initially focused solely on alternative fuels, Clean Cities expanded to include other relevant technologies. The five Clean Cities technologies are:
•Alternative fuels and vehicles
•Hybrid electric vehicles
•Idle reduction technologies
•Fuel economy measures
•Low-level fuel blends
Clean Cities coalitions determine which combinations of the five technologies will best help their cities and regions reduce petroleum consumption. The U.S. Department of Energy provides direction for coalitions by establishing goals that can be achieved within the framework of these five technologies.
Clean Cities also developed and maintains the Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center, a robust Web site that features information and tools related to Clean Cities' transportation technologies areas.
Goals
The goal of Clean Cities is to expand and stimulate alternative fuel and advanced technology markets to reduce petroleum consumption by 2.5 billion gallons by 2020. Clean Cities is focusing on three primary methods to achieve this goal:
•Replacement: Replacing petroleum used in the transportation sector with alternative fuels and low-level blends of non-petroleum replacement fuels.
•Reduction: Reducing petroleum use by promoting energy efficiency in vehicles through fuel-efficient, advanced technology vehicles.
•Elimination: Eliminating petroleum or other fuel use by promoting idle reduction, greater use of mass transit systems, and other congestion mitigation approaches.
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Clean Cities' primary goal is to reduce petroleum use in the United States by 2.5 billion gallons per year by 2020. To achieve this goal, Clean Cities employs three strategies:
-Replace petroleum with alternative and renewable fuels
-Reduce petroleum use through smarter driving practices, idle reduction, and fuel-efficient vehicles
-Eliminate petroleum consumption through the use of mass transit, trip-elimination measures, and congestion mitigation.
Clean Cities coalitions and stakeholders have saved 3 billion gallons of petroleum since the program's inception in 1993. Clean Cities projects have placed hundreds of thousands of alternative fuel vehicles on the road, developed thousands of alternative fueling stations, eliminated millions of hours of vehicle idling, and helped accelerate the entry of electric drive vehicles into the marketplace.
Since 1993, Clean Cities has funded more than 500 transportation projects nationwide through a competitive application process. Clean Cities has distributed $357 million in project awards, which have leveraged an additional $740 million in matching funds and in-kind contributions from other organizations in the public and private sectors.
