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New York City utility Con Edison will need to be able to charge about 10,000 electric school buses on its power grid within the next decade or so. A $9 million pilot project in Brooklyn could help show how. Electric school buses are an ideal target for so-called vehicle-to-grid services, says Roy Rada, Con Edison’s manager of EV demonstration projects; bus operators can choose when to charge them and also discharge stored power during summer evenings, when city electricity demand peaks. A growing number of EV charging depots are installing solar and batteries to reduce their demand on the grid. First Student is adding solar panels on top of the buses themselves. All these systems will be integrated with Con Edison’s grid operations via software.
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