ready when its use becomes widespread. Southern California utility San Diego Gas & Electric announced in late July that it


of transportation directors/ supervisors say they have an environmental sustainability director at their school district.


11%


(Out of 109 responses to a recent reader survey.)


is collaborating with the Cajon Valley Union School District and local energy man- agement company Nuvve in a pilot project to enable eight ESBs to send electricity back to the grid when needed, such as on hot summer days. The five-year project is the first V2G endeavor to become operational in Southern California and the latest V2G demonstration project to come online following the U.S. Department of Ener- gy’s (DOE) vehicle to everything (V2X) initiative announcement in April. The V2X Memorandum of Understanding brings together resources from the


DOE, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, state and local governments, utilities, and private entities to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of integrating bi-directional charging into the energy infrastructure. California also passed a new budget in June that includes $1.5 billion for ESBs, prioritizing low-income and rural districts that purchase ESBs with bi-directional charging.


ESBs and V2G: A Perfect Match? “School buses are the ideal use case for V2G because they hold larger batter-


ies than standard EVs, and when they’re not transporting students, these buses can spend peak solar hours parked and plugged into bi-directional chargers,”


44 School Transportation News • SEPTEMBER 2022


PHOTO COURTESY OF HIGHLAND ELECTRIC.


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