A new collaboration between Puget Sound Energy and local school districts, with grant funding from the Washington Department of Commerce, will transform their electric school buses into mobile power stations. The project is partially funded by a $612,000 grant from Commerce’s Clean Energy Community Grants program.
PSE is working with Snoqualmie Valley and Olympia School Districts to transform their electric buses- making them “power packs on wheels”. The program will help the participating school districts save money on fuel and maintenance, students will benefit from a cleaner, quieter ride, and PSE gets additional power resources when they’re needed most. The timing is perfect because school buses typically run in the morning and afternoon- leaving them free to provide grid services during evening hours and summer months when energy demand peaks.
Learn how it works here: PSE | Electric School buses do double duty as power sources in innovative PSE partnership