HARRISBURG — On Friday, the Wolf administration announced the formal opening of service at one of the 29 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling stations planned as part of a Public Private Partnership.

Officials from Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Trillium CNG, and Central Pennsylvania Transportation Authority-Gettysburg marked the start of fueling at the facility at 257 N. Fourth St, Rear, Gettysburg.

“Today’s opening marks another step forward as we work towards making clean burning natural gas more available to transit agencies across Pennsylvania,” Wolf said. “The benefits include more efficiency, cleaner burning fuels, and lower fuel costs for our transit agencies.”

Through the $84.5 million statewide P3 project, Trillium is designing, building, financing and will operate and maintain CNG fueling stations at 29 public transit agency sites through a 20-year P3 agreement. Other stations will be constructed over the next several years, and Trillium is also making CNG-related upgrades to existing transit maintenance facilities.

A list of other agencies participating in the P3 project, in order of construction-start timeline, follows:

Area Transportation Authority of North Central PA, Bradford Facility (2019)

Area Transportation Authority of North Central PA, Johnsonburg Facility (2019)

Area Transportation Authority of North Central PA, DuBois Facility (2020)

When the project is completed, the fueling stations will supply gas to more than 1,600 CNG buses at transit agencies across the state.