部长诺曼·贝克，议会交通运输部（DFT）局副局长，先后推出了一个新的500万美元（780万美元）英镑清洁总线技术基金，这将允许地方当局申办补助当地巴士加装减少污染的技术升级，如清洁的发动机，生物甲烷（可再生天然气）经营。授予期间宣布部长贝克（第一）英国生物甲烷燃气汽车2013年在伦敦会议的主题演讲。

地方当局将能够申办补助高达1英镑万来自交通运输部的清洁总线技术基金。

该计划是继除了12万元的资金英镑上个月宣布213个新的低碳巴士在最新一轮的绿色巴士基金，包括31生物甲烷为燃料的公交车。驿马是获得资助的申请人，接收资金向购买17斯堪尼亚/ ADL环保300单层生物甲烷燃气客车。虽然上个月公布的新巴士，这是新一轮的资金用于绿色技术的巴士加装电流。

谈到在英国的第一个生物甲烷和天然气汽车会议，市政厅，可持续交通运输部长诺曼·贝克说，“用沼气的潜在好处是巨大的，所以它高兴地看到这样发生和提高知名度的事件。”

“以总线是一个伟大的和环保的交通方式，并与政府保持优惠总线传递，它是免费的老人。然而，一些较旧的公交车是不是绿色，因为我想，所以我们已经宣布了这笔钱为当地的主管部门，如东萨塞克斯郡议会，投标，以减少污染的设备，改造旧巴士。这样，我们还可以进一步最大限度地提高环境效益的旅游巴士。“

夏洛特顿，行政长官在厌氧消化和沼气协会（ADBA）说，“生物甲烷沼气用于脱碳重型货车为数不多的选择之一。生物甲烷车辆试验已显示出巨大的空气质素和噪音降低的好处，以及来自使用这种超低碳燃料的温室气体排放量明显减少。“

Minister Norman Baker, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for Transport (DfT), has launched a new £5 million (USD 7.8 million) Clean Bus Technology Fund which will allow local authorities to bid for grants to upgrade local buses by retrofitting pollution reducing technologies, such as cleaner engines operating on biomethane (renewable natural gas). The grant was announced during Minister Baker’s keynote address to the (first) UK Biomethane & Gas Vehicle Conference 2013 in London.

Local authorities will be able to bid for grants of up to £1 million from the Department for Transport’s Clean Bus Technology Fund.

The scheme is in addition to the £12 million funding announced last month for 213 new low carbon buses in the latest round of the Green Bus Fund, including 31 biomethane-fuelled buses. Stagecoach was a successful grant applicant, receiving funding toward the purchase of seventeen Scania/ADL Enviro 300 single-decker biomethane gas buses. Whilst last month’s announcement was for new buses, this new round of funding is for retrofitting current buses with green technology.

Speaking at the UK’s first Biomethane and Gas Vehicle Conference, City Hall, Sustainable Transport Minister Norman Baker said, “The potential benefits of using biogas are huge so it is pleasing to see events like this taking place and raising its profile.”

“Taking the bus is a great and environmentally friendly way of getting around and with the government maintaining the concessionary bus passes it is free for the elderly. However, some older buses are not as green as I would like so we have announced this money for local authorities, such as East Sussex County Council, to bid on in order to retrofit older buses with pollution reducing equipment. That way we can yet further maximise the environmental benefits of travelling by bus.”

Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive at Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) said, “Biomethane from biogas is one of the few options for decarbonising heavy goods vehicles. Trials on biomethane vehicles have shown huge air quality and noise reduction benefits as well as the clear reduction in greenhouse gas emissions which come from using such an ultra low carbon fuel.”