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John Dennehy

V.P. of Marketing and Communications
Espar Heater Systems
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Mr. Dennehy has been V.P. of Marketing and Communications with Espar for 9 years. He has played an integral part in working with several levels of government agencies in both the U.S. and Canada to bring awareness to the challenges of idling, anti-idling technologies and the reduction of green house gases. Mr. Dennehy will entertain questions on anti-idling technologies, state regulations and state/province initiatives regarding rebates/incentives and also idling laws and fines within each state.

Question 7

January 26, 2005 @ 12:00 am


Q.		Are there any regulations about idling an A.P.U.? This is still, in our case a diesel motor.

To date there are no regulations regarding idling an APU in any state. That being said, CARB (California Air Resource Board) located in California, a state that is stringent about negative impacts on their air quality, are looking at regulating emissions on these small engines. Their agenda probably won�t be pushed through till 2010. Any users of this APU technology today and until then will be grand fathered in. So it will not affect you. Manufacturers of these small engines are also working to reduce the emissions, very much like what is happening with the Truck Engine Manufacturers in the Truck Market. There are many ways in reducing the engine emissions and the future will show what technologies each manufacturer uses.