Comment on A new program to electrify Front Range food trucks helps eliminate a “gaseous, terrible thing”

A new program to electrify Front Range food trucks helps eliminate a “gaseous, terrible thing”

A single food truck running for eight hours on a gas-powered generator is like burning 83 pounds of coal when it comes to releasing carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases that contributes to climate change and dirties Colorado’s air. Multiply that one food truck by the 10 that set up at a typical farmers market on a summer weekend in metro Denver, and an event aimed at promoting a more sustainable planet might just be doing more harm than good. But installing equipment to eliminate the air pollution created by gas generators is expensive. That’s why Colorado’s Regional Air Quality Council is rolling out a new program it calls Engines Off for Food Trucks, which will grant up to $20,000 to help food truck owners buy power systems that run on electricity to operate their refrigerators, coffee bean grinders, griddles and microwaves. It’s one of two new programs from the council aimed at reducing air pollution along the Front Range. Alex Maloof, who owns the Cafe Alejandro coffee truck in Boulder, received one of the first grants to buy a $16,000 Joule Case battery. “One of the things I wanted to do was be silent and more environmentally conscious,” Maloof said. But when he started the food truck 15 months ago, he couldn’t afford the Joule Case battery, so he used a gas generator. “I hated it every single day, every single time I used it,” he said.

 

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