Cajon Valley school buses deliver students — and power

It comes just three months after the Department of Energy unveiled its initiative in April to explore ways to power the grid with electric vehicle batteries.

The buses have large batteries when compared with regular electric vehicles, and that makes them an important source of potential power. “If there’s an opportunity to leverage that backup power, we want that,” said Miguel Romero, SDG&E’s vice president of energy innovation. “It can make sense, economically, for them to do so. We want them to potentially connect to the grid and us being able to reduce load.

The schools will be able to get a premium return, $2 a kilowatt hour, on the electricity they provide to the grid during emergencies.

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