Louisiana Clean Fuels, Inc.

Louisiana Clean Fuels, Inc., a non-profit organization headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, operates as a recipient of federal grants focused on transportation electrification, alternative fuels deployment, and clean energy workforce development, working primarily with the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Louisiana Clean Fuels delivers stakeholder engagement, technical assistance, outreach, and performance metric tracking through the Clean Cities and Communities (CC&C) Coalitions network, with regional scope across Louisiana and subordinate territory in Monticello, Arkansas. The organization's concrete work portfolio spans four capability areas: coalition outreach and market tracking for alternative fuel and transportation electrification adoption; diesel emissions reduction through marine engine repowering; electric vehicle workforce training and curriculum development; and clean fuels infrastructure planning and coordination. Representative prime grant work includes a $5.6 million EPA Diesel Emissions Reduction Act project grant (CFDA 66.039) awarded September 2024 through July 2028 to repower 16 main engines and 7 auxiliary engines in 8 towboats on the Lower Mississippi River system between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, targeting annual reductions of 115,994 short tons of nitrogen oxide emissions and 3,754 tons of diesel particulate matter in five historically disadvantaged Louisiana parishes; two consecutive DOE Cooperative Agreements under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) — one for $130,000 covering April 2026 through March 2027 for Monticello, Arkansas coalition outreach and engagement, and a second for $215,000 over the same period for Baton Rouge coalition services; and a $280,000-plus Cooperative Agreement under the GUMBO (Guaranteeing Access to Underserved and Marginalized Populations by Building Employment Opportunities) initiative, running October 2023 through December 2026, to provide electric vehicle charging-related educational curriculum and workforce training to regional and national training partners.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to a single agency: the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy accounts for 12 of 13 awards in the source data, with the EPA Region 6 representing one award. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $8.4 million. Activity accelerated in 2024 and 2025, with four awards in each year, up from single awards in 2021 and 2023; two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. Louisiana Clean Fuels also operates as a sub-recipient across six grant awards under prime grantees American Lung Association, World Resources Institute, the National Association of State Energy Officials, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, and the Electric Power Research Institute, delivering state-lead coordination, school bus fleet electrification support, hydrogen fueling infrastructure permitting assistance, and program delivery activities for DOE-funded clean energy initiatives.