Mississauga is on monitor to accumulate hydrogen gasoline cell electrical buses.
The Metropolis of Mississauga is about to change into Ontario’s first municipality to pilot hydrogen gasoline cell electrical buses inside its transit fleet. MiWay, Mississauga’s transit company, is launching a Hydrogen Gas Cell Electrical Bus mission to maneuver in direction of extra sustainable public transit. Backed by the Federal Zero Emission Transit Fund (ZETF), which granted approval for funding in December 2022, the Metropolis is on monitor to fulfill the mission deadline of December 31, 2025, and is trying to buy 10 hydrogen gasoline cell electrical buses.
In July, the Metropolis issued a Request for Data (RFI) for Hydrogen Gas Provide Choices, to safe a dependable hydrogen gasoline provide. The “Hydrogen-as-a-Service” (HaaS) mannequin goals to reduce operational dangers by outsourcing hydrogen manufacturing, distribution, and allotting infrastructure operations. There have been 9 submissions are underneath evaluation from organizations occupied with supplying hydrogen to the Metropolis. These proposals are at the moment underneath analysis. The price of hydrogen gasoline might be requested and lined inside the 2026 Working Funds.
Sourcing and funding for the brand new buses
New Flyer Industries, from Winnipeg, is the one producer in Canada that produces hydrogen gasoline cell electrical buses (FCEBs). A Council request has been made to ask for approval to supply these buses from New Flyer, completely.
Round $20 million is being put aside to buy 10, 40-foot hydrogen gasoline cell electrical buses. As much as $10 million is predicted to be reimbursed via the ZETF, which covers 50 per cent of eligible mission prices.
MiWay has requested an additional $500,000 to improve essential services, together with the Malton Transit and Central Parkway Physique websites to help the brand new hydrogen buses.
Local weather mitigation via MiWay’s transit fleet
If Council approves the initiative, it’s going to help the Metropolis’s Local weather Change Motion Plan (CCAP), to cut back company greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions by 40 per cent by 2030, and 80 per cent by 2050. It is going to additionally showcase Mississauga’s dedication to lowering carbon emissions and furthering Mississauga’s position as a frontrunner in sustainable transit options.
MiWay is Ontario’s third-largest municipal transit service supplier. Almost 60 per cent of MiWay’s buses are hybrid-electric. These buses resulted in a 30 per cent discount in diesel gasoline consumption per 12 months and 5,134,000 kilograms (5,134 tonnes) of prevented GHG emissions per 12 months.
Lately the Metropolis grew to become an affiliate member of the Canadian Hydrogen Affiliation. This a nationwide, non-profit affiliation that represents business, academia, end-users and different stakeholders in Canada’s hydrogen sector. The Metropolis can be working to ascertain a hydrogen community (hub) that can carry collectively key gamers to advertise and create an area hydrogen ecosystem (e.g. gasoline, fuelling infrastructure, gear, vans and buses) to cut back GHG emissions reductions. The hub may even drive technological developments, enhance native jobs and develop the economic system.
Hydrogen is a cleaner gasoline possibility that provides a greater various to diesel. Hydrogen-electric expertise is one possibility that may work in direction of a zero-emission bus fleet. With Council’s approval, MiWay will change into the primary transit company in Ontario to pilot this progressive hydrogen FCEB expertise, setting the stage for transit fleet decarbonization and positioning itself as an business chief.
The company report will go to Council subsequent week, on September 25, for ultimate approval.
Quotes
“If we’re going to be smart about climate change, we need to start looking into alternatives to diesel for our growing transit fleet and start investing to cleaner fuels and technologies. This $20 million investment will advance our understanding of hydrogen fuel and what it means for sustainable transportation options in the future. We’re committed to looking for innovative and low-emission solutions to reach our goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Mississauga by 40 per cent by 2030.”
– Mayor Carolyn Parrish, Metropolis of Mississauga
“As a City, our goal is to look for innovative ways to lower corporate emissions, including our emissions from our transit fleet. We’re committed to investing in zero- and lower-emission vehicles and cleaner fuels, like hydrogen, which are becoming more available and include fuel cell technology for transportation. This decision to embrace hydrogen fuels shows Mississauga’s dedication to reducing its dependency on fossil fuels and its effort to become more environmentally friendly.”
– Geoff Wright, Metropolis Supervisor and Chief Administrative Officer, Metropolis of Mississauga
“MiWay is taking big steps towards transitioning to a zero-emission transit with major investments in our fleet. Since 2019, MiWay has been working to replace its diesel buses and bring lower emission vehicles in addition to now piloting and investing in new vehicle technologies like hydrogen fuel cell electric buses to meet the targets set out in the CCAP.”– Eve Wiggins, Director, Transit, Metropolis of Mississauga/MiWay
An instance of a hydrogen gasoline cell electrical bus.
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