Biodiesel Magazine reports that The Energy Cooperative, a Philadelphia alternative-fuel distributor, has delivered 10 million gallons of biodiesel.
Originally launched in 1979 as a heating oil buying group, (co-director Jossi) Fritz-Mauer said that by 2005 TEC grew and broadened its cost-saving services to customers to include distributing and marketing biodiesel to customers like the Philadelphia Eagles and the Philadelphia Zoo.
In 2006, with the help of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection’s Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant program, which covers the added cost of using biodiesel blends, Great Valley became the first school district in the Commonwealth to use biodiesel. TEC has grown to assist more than a dozen other area school districts in neighboring counties to help facilitate their transition to biodiesel.
Not only is TEC focused on the distribution and marketing efforts of biodiesel for transport fleets in school districts, but the organization also offers Bioheat, biodiesel mixed with petroleum-derived heating oil to its members.
Original source: Biodiesel Magazine
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