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 today, with 12 more expected by the start of next school year. They’ll be bolstered by a 500-kilowatt solar array and a 2-megawatt-hour battery onsite, as well as by solar panels on some of the buses themselves.

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Source: Canary Media

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