California
Our retail stations in California serve more than 640,000 customers every day. bp is the largest supplier of renewable natural gas (RNG) to the California transportation sector.
Fast facts
- bp supports hundreds of California communities with more than 300 ARCO-branded gas stations and roughly 260 ampm convenience store franchises, along with 15 TravelCenters of America locations statewide.
- bp ventures has invested around $250 million in California-based companies in the last 10 years.
bp’s presence in California ranges from traditional convenience and mobility outlets to a variety of low carbon products, including biofuels, electric vehicle (EV) charging and solar.
bp is the largest producer of RNG in the US
Since acquiring Archaea Energy in 2022, bp is the largest RNG producer in theUS. Through our joint ventures, bp owns operating facilities in California and several other states that capture methane from waste to produce RNG for the US transportation sector. Produced entirely from organic waste, RNG can reduce emissions by around 70% compared with gasoline or diesel.
In 2017, bp and Clean Energy Fuels Corp. formed a 10-year partnership with bp supplying RNG to Clean Energy’s extensive California fueling network, the state’s largest RNG dispensing system.
bp pulse, bp’s electric vehicle (EV) charging business, is working to help simplify electrification by providing fast, reliable charging solutions for both consumers and commercial fleets across America. With offices in Mountain View, bp pulse is working with the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System to manage its growing electric bus fleet, as well as the Anaheim Transportation Network to create California’s first all-electric bus fleet by 2025.
bp pulse also has public EV charging sites in the state and has announced plans to open an ultra-fast bp pulse Gigahub at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). In July 2024, bp pulse and TravelCenters of America (TA) broke ground on one of the nation’s first publicly accessible medium- and heavy-duty truck charging stations at TA’s Ontario, California travel center.
Our joint venture Lightsource bp has its US headquarters in San Francisco. Lightsource bp is one of the world’s leading developers and operators of utility-scale solar and battery storage assets. In November 2023, we agreed to acquire the remaining 50.03% stake, and the deal is expected to be complete by the end of 2024, subject to regulatory approval.
Our Biosciences Center (BSC) is bp’s hub for bioscience research and innovation. The focus of the BSC is on the development of integrated biosciences technology solutions to advance bp’s bioenergy strategy.
The BSC’s intellectual property portfolio includes technology developed to produce second-generation ethanol and other renewable hydrocarbons with applications in fuels, lubricants and other sustainable molecules. In addition, the BSC provides critical scientific and engineering support to bp’s refineries and bp Bunge Bioenergia, which produces ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil.
The BSC also supports world-class independent research programs, including the bp International Centre for Advanced Materials (ICAM), a partnership with leading universities to study advanced materials needed to accelerate the technologies needed for the transition to net zero. Together with bp, these academic collaborators work together to address a wide range of global energy challenges supporting the development of advanced biofuels and sustainable molecules.