Co-locate stationary storage with fleet depots or critical facilities to guarantee baseline resilience even when buses return depleted.
Challenge/Local/State
Priority Area: Clean and Active Transportation
Description
Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Construction/Installation/Procurement )
Existing Examples of Progress: LA Metro’s electric bus fleet demonstrates the potential of EV batteries as supplemental storage for microgrids, but in practice buses often return from routes with depleted batteries, limiting their resilience value. Stakeholders emphasized that realizing this potential will require coordinated planning to reserve capacity for grid use and pairing EVs with stationary batteries at critical facilities.
Region: Los Angeles
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