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Fuel Delivery Temperature Study
(Docket # 07-HFS-1)
Committee overseeing this proceeding:
Vice Chair and Presiding Member
Transportation Committee
Karen Douglas
Chairman and Associate Member
Transportation Committee
Fuel Delivery Temperature Study
Commission Adopted Report.
Publication # CEC-600-2009-002-CMF.
Adopted March 11, 2009. Posted March 12, 2009, 2009.
(PDF file, 149 pages, 4.9 megabytes)
Assembly Bill 868 (Davis, Chapter 398, Statutes of 2007) requires the California Energy Commission to prepare a cost-benefit analysis and to make recommendations relative to the implementation of Automatic Temperature Correction devices at retail service stations. This report is due to the Legislature no later than December 31, 2008.
Like many other liquids, fuel experiences expansion and contraction with temperature change. For gasoline, there is one percent less fuel for each fifteen degree temperature increase. So the warmer the fuel, the less energy and fewer miles to the gallon a vehicle will receive.
This report will be prepared in partnership with the Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Air Resources Board. The Division of Measurement Standards, within the Department of Food and Agriculture is currently conducting a fuel temperature survey to complement site surveys planned by the Energy Commission.
For more information on this program and proceeding, please contact:
California Energy Commission
1516 Ninth Street, MS-41
Sacramento, CA 95814-5512
Telephone: (916) 651-0483
Email: njanusch@energy.state.ca.us
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Media & Public Communications Office
Phone: 916-654-4989
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