Thursday, December 10, 2020

Nuvve Demonstrates Use of Buses For Electricity Storage

San Diego-based green technology developer Nuvve says that it has demonstrated the use of its technology in an installation in New York, where five school electric school buses have been used to provide power to Con Edison's grid. According to the company, the install of its chargers and platform connected the five, Lion Electric school buses to Con Edison's grid in White Plains, New York. According to Nuvve, its electric chargers are used to recharge the buses during the week, when the buses are used for transporting kids to school; on nights and weekends, when the buses are not in use, the system provides up to 10 kilowatts of power from each bus into the grid. Nuvve said that the use of those electric school buses, particularly in summer, when school buses are generally idle, could be used to help offload demand on the electric grid when nearby residents increase their use of air conditioning.

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