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HCS accepts delivery of additional electric school bus

In January of 2020, Hampton City Schools was one of 16 school divisions in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the only division on the Peninsula selected to participate in phase one of an electric school bus program through Dominion Energy and Sonny Merriman. Phase one included distribution of 50 buses throughout the Commonwealth. The division accepted delivery of one of two electric buses in March 2021. The second bus (which was the 50th Sonny Merriman bus) was delivered to HCS on Thursday, May 27, 2021.

Dominion states that the buses reduce operation and maintenance costs for schools by up to 60 percent and also provide environmental and health benefits through reduced emissions. The bus batteries are leveraged through a “vehicle-to-grid” technology to store and inject energy onto the grid during periods when the buses are not needed for transport. The buses serve as a grid resource by creating additional energy storage technology to support the company’s integration of distributed renewables such as solar and wind.

Dominion Energy selected the localities based on the benefit the batteries would bring to the electric grid. State approval of phase two of the project would bring the program to at least 1,000 additional electric school buses by 2025. Full implementation of phase two would mean the batteries of the buses could provide enough energy to power more than 10,000 homes. The goal of phase three is to have 50 percent of all diesel bus replacements in Dominion Energy’s footprint electric by 2025 and 100 percent by 2030.

For more information visit Dominion Energy at https://news.dominionenergy.com/2019-08-29-Dominion-Energy-Proposes-Largest-Electric-School-Bus-Initiative-in-the-Country