New York City tests a solar-powered electric-school-bus microgrid

Published on November 4, 2024

New York City utility Con Edison will need to be able to charge about 10,000 electric school buses on its constrained power grid within the next 10 years or so. A $9 million pilot project in Brooklyn could help it figure out how to do that. The project is starting small. Four battery-electric school buses are onsite…

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