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Trillium CNG said it plans to build 101 publicly assessable Class 8 compressed natural-gas filling stations by 2016.

The stations will be in 29 states across, the country with 14 planned for Texas, eight in Ohio and seven��in Florida, according to Trillium. Sites are based on customers' demands that CNG stations be built off of major interstate highways near their key shipping lanes.

The company said it will��secure fuel-purchase agreements with��anchor customers for all of the��stations.

“Natural gas is abundant, U.S.-produced, burns cleaner and significantly less costly than diesel,”��Trillium CNG President��Mary Boettcher said in a statement.

“The expansion of our CNG fueling infrastructure will make compressed natural gas available to a greater number of fleets traveling busy commercial trucking routes,” she said.

Trillium estimates there are 120,000 natural gas-powered vehicles on the road today in the United States.