A high-traffic South Jersey Wawa in Paulsboro is the convenience chain’s test site for compressed natural gas.
With its partner South Jersey Gas, Wawa unveiled Thursday its pilot CNG pumping station on Berkley Road at the Interstate 295 interchange.
Wawa’s first CNG station is among 900 such filling stations in the state. South Jersey Gas operates two – one in Millville and another in Glassboro – that are meant to fuel its fleet but are open to the public.
The sale and conversion of vehicles from gasoline fuel to compressed natural gas is growing, according to Brian Schaller, Wawa’s vice president of fuel.
Through the pilot program, Schaller will analyze South Jersey’s demand for the fuel, a gasoline alternative produced in the United States and Canada.
The gas company has converted 100 of its own vehicles to run on CNG, lowering its greenhouse gas emissions by 700 tons a year, company President Jeff DuBois reported.