IdleAire Technologies Corp. has opened the first of three Advanced Travel Center Electrification (ATE) system installations planned for Texas in the next several weeks.

The first opened at the Travel Centers of America’s (TA) Dallas South Travel Center in Dallas, Texas. A second, at the TA in Baytown, is under construction, and a third, at the TA in San Antonio, is in the pre-construction stages.
Deployment of the system in the Dallas and Baytown locations is expected to eliminate more than 4,500 metric tons of air pollution and save nearly 552,000 gallons of fuel annually, according to IdleAire Chief Operating Officer David Everhart. The technology deployment is also creating 20 new fulltime (or FTE) jobs at each site.
The installations are the first in a TA facility since the two companies announced an agreement in June. The company already has installations in New York, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas and California, and has targeted an additional dozen locations to be under construction before the end of the year.