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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you want solar power in your home, you usually need to be a homeowner with a good roof and a decent amount of cash to pay up front.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But some Bay Area residents are trying out plug-in solar, which can hang from an apartment balcony, out a window, or be tented in the backyard.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997918/forget-rooftops-bay-area-residents-are-plugging-solar-into-the-wall\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forget Rooftops — Bay Area Residents Are Plugging Solar Into the Wall\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1091634272&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:01:44] The dream for Plugin Solar is you go to a big box store or you just look online and you click a button or you check out, you set it up and then you plug it into your wall and you start offsetting your electrical bill. The idea here is like, this makes solar available to all kinds of people. You don’t need a roof, or even if you have a roof you could just put it up in your backyard. You could hang it off of a fence or a balcony. You could even drape it out of your window and just sort of set it up according to instructions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] I know you went to see someone get some plug-in solar installed. Tell me what that was like and who you went to go meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:02:36] Yeah, I went to Berkeley, to the hills, and I met Matt Milner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matthew Milner \u003c/strong>[00:02:42] I’m Matthew Milner, and I’m a scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:02:46] He is interested in reducing his impact on the climate. He’s a father, he has two kids, so he thinks about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matthew Milner \u003c/strong>[00:02:53] Because the world is changing and so we’re just trying to make the world a better place for our kids and we wanted to get rooftop solar but it’s so expensive this kind of allows us to dip our toe in a little bit without having a huge financial cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:10] He saw something about Plug& Solar, and he was curious. And he saw one of the organizations that was doing it was based in the Bay Area. And he was like, oh, interesting. That organization turns out to be this nonprofit called Bright Saver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rupert Mayer \u003c/strong>[00:03:23] Do you want a hammer to drive it in? No, I was thinking where I’m getting the shuffle. I’m just digging a little bit of a hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] Two of the co-founders were there. One of them was Rupert Mayer, who was helping to do this installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rupert Mayer \u003c/strong>[00:03:34] This is all the gear that we’ll be using. Oftentimes, including here, we are mounting a dedicated outlet outside the house because the break-up handle is…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:03:44] And they had an electrician as well to make sure it was, you know, totally fine. And it took like two or three hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rupert Mayer \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] You know what? I think I’ll grab another of these legs and mount it on this side. Then both sides are standing on a leg and we could fine tune…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:04:06] What it looks like is just angled solar panels against his wooden fence. They’re secured to the fence. There’s like, they dug a little bit of holes and stuff into the dirt at the bottom. So they’re secured there. 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And there are also other countries where this technology is actually pretty normal, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Klivans \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] Yeah, in Germany, it’s very common. And they have built a movement that’s taken more than a decade to break through some of the barriers that exist right now for this to take off in the United States. But in Germany there are about 4 million arrays, like 4 million people or households with these.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cora Stryker \u003c/strong>[00:06:36] We don’t want it to take 10 years like it took in Germany. 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That’s just a decent amount of paperwork. It comes with a fee anywhere from 100 ish dollars to 800 dollars depending on how you apply and it can take some time for PG&E They say it often only takes three days But it’s a barrier and and the idea with this thing is like off the shelf plug it in. In Germany for example, the registration form is just four questions. Then you’re legit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:48] All this registration stuff means that plug-in solar is something of a gray area. PG&E says this process is important for safety and reliability, but supporters of plug-ins solar say it puts up unnecessary barriers. For now, Bright Saver, the nonprofit that installed Matt Milner’s plug-In Solar, is shifting its focus to education. 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"content": "\u003cp>The cold war between \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> and PG&E has officially thawed, as the city and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/tag/pge\">utility company today \u003c/a>announced a partnership aimed at attracting big power users — data centers and others of that ilk — to the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the pact is the first of its kind in PG&E’s service area, with the utility offering assurances to the city and developers that power will be ready for 10 large data center and industrial projects in the city’s north, south and downtown areas in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also means San José will stop pursuing the latest plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780862/liccardo-proposes-san-jose-public-utility-in-wake-of-pges-power-shutoffs\">build its own power company\u003c/a> — something the city council authorized looking into in 2023. The exploration of the city-owned power company was born in part out of frustrations with PG&E-caused delays, shutoffs and a desire to compete for development of data centers and other advanced industrial facilities in certain portions of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing more devastating than having an investor or an employer say, ‘You know, we really want to build that factory or that data center and bring those jobs to your city, but we’re just not sure we’re going to be able to have the power we need by the time we need it to do it,’” Mayor Matt Mahan said Friday morning at a press conference outside the gates of PG&E’s Los Esteros substation near North San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Mahan said the deal will allow the city and PG&E to offer “speed and certainty” to developers to help ensure data centers stay in Silicon Valley, keeping them as paying PG&E customers and contributors to San José’s tax base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049894 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-8_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks during a July 25, 2025, press conference in North San José about a partnership with PG&E intended to attract more data center development to the city. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials estimate each data center could generate anywhere from $3.4 million to $6.8 million in annual revenue for the city through utility and property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re really talking about here is re-engineering our service delivery model to integrate the city and the utility’s teams into one,” Mahan said. “We can actually sign an agreement that says we’ll have 100 megawatts for you at this site by this date, and we will get it done and deliver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement hopes to take advantage of and build on 2,000 megawatts of increased power capacity, expected to be provided by two different transmission line projects from developer LS Power Grid.[aside postID=science_1997283 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/11/241113-EcoBlockFollowup-58-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The lines would run from Newark into North San José energy centers, and from a Coyote Valley terminal in South San José, to the PG&E Metcalf substation and into downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said PG&E will also be investing $2.6 billion into improving and expanding its infrastructure in the South Bay between 2026 and 2035, to enable more reliable delivery of that increased power to customers, large and small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patti Poppe, CEO of PG&E, said the historic partnership is about accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have agreed to timelines and performance requirements that the city had for us. We’re up for that. PG&E is willing to stand behind our word and do what needs to be done to serve this new growth,” Poppe said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having expectations and accountability matched with this massive new demand makes it an absolutely unique opportunity to power the prosperity of tech companies, their employees, the citizens of San José and our community right here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the major projects includes an envisioned large-scale development on roughly 159 acres of public land on the property of the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, adjacent to Los Esteros. The facility is jointly owned by the two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049896 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-6_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patti Poppe, the CEO of PG&E, talks about a partnership between the utility company and the city of San José during a July 25, 2025, press conference in North San José. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The utility company has committed to supplying that land with 250 megawatts of power, enough to power multiple data centers, which are often sized to use about 99 megawatts to avoid stricter oversight for projects that use 100 megawatts or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manuel Pineda, a deputy city manager for San José overseeing energy projects, said having an undeveloped piece of land so large, and pairing it with an energy commitment of that magnitude, is “unheard of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pineda recently rejoined San José after running Silicon Valley Power, the city-owned utility in Santa Clara, which has seen massive growth in data centers over the past several years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The lines would run from Newark into North San José energy centers, and from a Coyote Valley terminal in South San José, to the PG&E Metcalf substation and into downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said PG&E will also be investing $2.6 billion into improving and expanding its infrastructure in the South Bay between 2026 and 2035, to enable more reliable delivery of that increased power to customers, large and small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patti Poppe, CEO of PG&E, said the historic partnership is about accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have agreed to timelines and performance requirements that the city had for us. We’re up for that. PG&E is willing to stand behind our word and do what needs to be done to serve this new growth,” Poppe said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having expectations and accountability matched with this massive new demand makes it an absolutely unique opportunity to power the prosperity of tech companies, their employees, the citizens of San José and our community right here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the major projects includes an envisioned large-scale development on roughly 159 acres of public land on the property of the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, adjacent to Los Esteros. 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This demand — Santa Clara’s more than 50 data centers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028158/crackdown-on-power-guzzling-data-centers-may-soon-come-online-in-california\">eaten through about 60%\u003c/a> of the city’s power — has forced the city to approve projects to increase capacity. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road map has the backing of the Marin Conservation League, which analyzes county environmental policy, board member Ken Strong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it’s a great step, and we will be advocating in the local jurisdictions for this to be adopted,” Strong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is “solely advisory,” according to staff, and requires the collaboration of not just local officials in each jurisdiction but also community members, including developers, community-based organizations, residents and real estate agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “intended to be a shared endeavor,” Armanino told the board. “Much like all climate action strategies, a collective action will be required to successfully implement the actions identified in the road map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Katie Rice said the county’s aging residential buildings — over 90% of them were built before 2000 — are a challenge to electrifying buildings across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, about 17,000 of those buildings, according to the plan, are in the “sweet spot for electrification opportunities” because of their likely aging appliances and systems that will need replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rice, who called the plan “excellent work,” suggested that an annual electrification fair be held to boost awareness and participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need folks to be planning ahead and anticipating replacing appliances,” Rice said. “I do think those hands-on fairs really make a difference for folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Unified will soon become the first major district in the country to host an all-electric fleet of school buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 1,300 special education students in the district, who have the option of riding the buses, can look forward to quieter and cleaner rides starting at the beginning of the next school year, in August. (Unlike some other Bay Area districts, OUSD does not offer busing for most of its students.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ousdnews/posts/pfbid0KE5MdV5nv4LbQ993mYiZ7ZttedxMoJXF72n4LgaSx3ocPsneydKqp973nRiyHbwfl\">a Facebook post last month\u003c/a>, the district announced its new partnership with school transportation company Zum (pronounced ZOOM), based in Redwood City, which is providing and managing the 74-bus fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ridezum.com/blog/zum-launches-nations-first-100-electrified-bidirectional-v2g-school-bus-fleet-in-oakland-ca/\">Zum estimates\u003c/a> the buses will prevent about 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases from entering the environment each year — the amount it said that 74 diesel buses would likely produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicles are all equipped with bidirectional chargers that replenish the buses overnight but can also enable them to serve as power sources when needed. Zum said its AI technology monitors the buses’ energy use and determines the best times to return power back to the grid while calculating the most efficient bus routes based on traffic patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families will also be able to use an app to track the buses their children are riding on and receive updates about delays, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its initial five-year contract, OUSD will pay Zum $11.2 million a year to run the buses, according to Kimberly Raney, OUSD’s transportation director. About half of the district’s total costs for the service will be covered by federal, state and private grants, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a true partnership of how we do what’s right for the kids,” Raney said. “Oakland is really the perfect place for this. 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The company, she notes, already has existing contracts with smaller Southern California districts as well as contracts with San Francisco and Los Angeles school districts. “Our goal is to expand the program and have 10,000 electric school buses deployed across the country over the next several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E worked with Zum for two years to complete the large East Oakland charging site for the bus fleet, a project that required significant infrastructure upgrades, including the installation of a new transformer and 171 feet of underground infrastructure, according to Paul Doherty, a spokesperson for the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although OUSD is ahead of the curve in its bus electrification efforts, the district’s move marks a transition that most school districts in California will have to start making within the next decade. 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Newson’s budget plan would add nearly $400 million more to the pot for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a green shirt and a man wearing a dark shirt stand in between two school buses and a charging station.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zum CEO Ritu Narayan (front) and COO Vivek Garg pose with the first of the 74 electric school buses it will be running in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Zum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-prioritizes-electric-school-buses-over-preschool-for-children-with-disabilities/712445\">proposal has proven controversial\u003c/a> among some education advocates and parents, as the money would come at the expense of the state’s Inclusive Early Education Expansion Program, which helps train preschool teachers to better serve children with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a special education administrator and somebody who’s been in the special education field, I think students with disabilities are more important than electric buses,” Anthony Rebelo, chair of the Coalition for Adequate Funding for Special Education, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-prioritizes-electric-school-buses-over-preschool-for-children-with-disabilities/712445\">recently told EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School bus driver Marjorie Urbina has been picking up and dropping off students in San Francisco for decades and has experience driving more than a dozen different types of school buses. 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The company, she notes, already has existing contracts with smaller Southern California districts as well as contracts with San Francisco and Los Angeles school districts. “Our goal is to expand the program and have 10,000 electric school buses deployed across the country over the next several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E worked with Zum for two years to complete the large East Oakland charging site for the bus fleet, a project that required significant infrastructure upgrades, including the installation of a new transformer and 171 feet of underground infrastructure, according to Paul Doherty, a spokesperson for the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although OUSD is ahead of the curve in its bus electrification efforts, the district’s move marks a transition that most school districts in California will have to start making within the next decade. That’s due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-579-Signing-Message.pdf\">a 2023 state law\u003c/a> requiring all new or leased state school buses to be zero-emission beginning in 2035 — with extensions for rural school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing for the state to spend $1.8 billion over the next five years to help districts acquire more zero-emission buses and charging equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature had initially committed $500 million annually toward electric school buses for the next two school years. 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She began working in Oakland two years ago and now drives for Zum on a contract basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urbina said the Zum buses are much quieter and easier to clean, and the driver’s seat is more comfortable than other buses she’s driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new buses also have driver-side tablets that display navigation tools and allow drivers and dispatchers to connect in real-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the new buses, we asked for certain things, like making the ceiling more soundproof to help diffuse the noise of the kids,” Urbina said, noting that those improvements have made her job a bit easier. “That atmosphere of having a quiet bus keeps the environment inside a little more relaxed.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As a historic 10-day heat wave threatened brownouts across California \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/8.31.22-Heat-Proclamation.pdf?emrc=78e3fc\">last summer,\u003c/a> a small San Diego County school district did its part to help: It captured excess power from its electric school buses and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdgenews.com/article/sdge-and-cajon-valley-union-school-district-flip-switch-regions-first-vehicle-grid-project\">sent it back to the state’s overwhelmed grid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven school buses provided enough power for 452 homes each day of the heat wave, and the buses were recharged only during off hours when the grid was not strained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California energy officials have high hopes that this new power source, called bidirectional charging, will \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/01/california-electric-cars-grid/\">boost California’s power supply\u003c/a> as it ramps up its \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/electric-cars-california-to-phase-out-gas-cars/\">ambitious agenda of electrifying its cars\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2023/04/california-phases-out-diesel-trucks/\">trucks\u003c/a> and buses while switching to 100% clean energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called two-way charging technology a “game changer,” and said, “this is the future” during a speech last September, about a week after the heat wave ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB233\">bill\u003c/a> already approved by the state Senate in a 29-9 vote would require all new electric cars sold in California to be equipped with bidirectional technology by 2030. In the Assembly, two committees approved the bill earlier this month and it is now under consideration by a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This two-way charging has big potential — but also faces big obstacles. By 2035, California expects to have 12.5 million electric cars on the road, but it’s an open question how much California can rely on them to feed the grid. Automakers say the technology would add thousands of dollars to the cost of an electric car, and California’s utilities are still sorting out how to pay ratepayers for selling them the kilowatt hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability to use electric cars, trucks and buses to feed energy back into the grid would be especially helpful during peak times for energy use, such as heatwaves. But relying on vehicles as a year-round power source may not be practical — at least not yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great idea conceptually…but we haven’t had the time to flesh out the details of what needs to happen for California to be able to power itself on electric vehicles,” said Orville Thomas, state policy director for CALSTART, a sustainable energy nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Orville Thomas, state policy director, CALSTART\"]‘It’s a great idea conceptually … but we haven’t had the time to flesh out the details of what needs to happen for California to be able to power itself on electric vehicles.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should be on the menu of options that California has. Is it going to be the number one option? Definitely not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, its use has been limited in California. Pacific Gas and Electric has a pilot program — the first in the nation — that lets up to 1,000 residential customers with bidirectional chargers sell power back to the utility. Some school districts also are experimenting with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about half a dozen electric car models currently are equipped with bidirectional capabilities, including the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Nissan Leaf and Ford F-150 Lightning. Tesla announced recently that all its models will have it by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric vehicles convert one type of energy, alternating current electricity, into another, direct current, which is stored in a battery. Bidirectional charging means that an electric vehicle can convert the energy it has stored in its battery and send it to other sources, such as home appliances or back to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11956108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-20-at-12.34.58-PM.png\" alt=\"A graphic image demonstrating how biodirectional charging can help bolster the power grid. A cartoon-like electric vehicle is pictured with various arrows pointing toward different areas it could help charge such as a transformer, home and a refrigerator.\" width=\"1602\" height=\"1340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-20-at-12.34.58-PM.png 1602w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-20-at-12.34.58-PM-800x669.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-20-at-12.34.58-PM-1020x853.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-20-at-12.34.58-PM-160x134.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-20-at-12.34.58-PM-1536x1285.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1602px) 100vw, 1602px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willett M. Kempton, a University of Delaware professor who has studied bidirectional charging for more than two decades, said the vast majority of the time a vehicle is parked and not using electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five percent of the time you’re using the car and you want to have enough energy — electricity or gasoline — to get to where you’re going and back. But most of the time, it’s just sitting there and some other use could be made of it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kempton said these vehicles, properly managed, could be sources of reserve energy, supplanting backup sources that burn fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory Poilasne, co-founder and CEO of Nuvve Holding Corp., which sells electric fleet charging services, said a big challenge is that cars are unreliable energy assets. “At any time, somebody might come in and unplug the car,” he said. But he added, as the technology becomes more reliable and affordable, bidirectional cars and fleets should increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The cost: $3,700 per car\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Denmark, bidirectional charging earns electric vehicle fleet owners who sell power to the grid $3,000 per vehicle a year, Poilasne said, adding that this reduces the average total cost of electric car ownership by about 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But citing the high cost, automakers oppose the Senate bill that would mandate the chargers for all new cars sold in California by 2030. It would increase the average cost of an electric car by $3,700, according to an opposition letter written by Curt Augustine of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents General Motors, Ford and other major auto companies.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Curt Augustine, senior director of state affairs, Alliance for Automotive Innovation\"]‘Not all customers will see an advantage of bidirectional charging, and therefore, should not have to pay more for a technology that they will not use.’[/pullquote]About $3,000 of that cost would be adding battery capacity to meet warranty requirements, while other costs are for hardware and software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This technology is a competitive matter between vehicle manufacturers and should remain that way,” Augustine wrote. “Not all customers will see an advantage of bidirectional charging, and therefore, should not have to pay more for a technology that they will not use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas of CALSTART agreed, saying it should be optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be a situation where there are people that want to do it and will pay a little extra for a car that is bidirectional, but there will also be people that just want to use a vehicle for driving,” he said. “Do we raise the price of electric vehicles for everybody?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat from Oakland who authored SB 233, said she wants to ensure that automakers don’t reserve the technology for only their higher-end models. She said since the relatively affordable Nissan Leaf has it, it can be widely available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner said all consumers would benefit from the technology by selling energy to the grid or using the energy in emergencies. But she said another important reason is that it could end reliance on diesel generators during power emergencies like wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956111\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS32599_ElectricCars_AW_03-qut.jpg\" alt='A public parking space is marked with the words \"public charging.\" An icon of a car with a lightning bolt is pictured above the parking space.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS32599_ElectricCars_AW_03-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS32599_ElectricCars_AW_03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS32599_ElectricCars_AW_03-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS32599_ElectricCars_AW_03-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS32599_ElectricCars_AW_03-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State officials and utilities hope that more electric cars and fleets of trucks and buses will be equipped with biodirectional charging, which could feed electricity back into the grid. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have an EV you don’t need that diesel generator,” Skinner said. “Why would we want to encourage diesel generators? They’re extremely polluting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Lu, an air pollution specialist with the California Energy Commission’s vehicle-grid integration unit, said the state is working with owners to identify the best times to charge — called smart charging — to protect the grid. Bidirectional charging takes the concept a step further, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Energy Commission is not yet ready to say how reliant California will be on bidirectional charging to provide sufficient power and meet the state’s 2045 mandate for carbon-free electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re fairly early in this process. California is very committed to load flexibility broadly, but where that load flexibility specifically comes from, how many megawatts or gigawatts are coming from any particular kind of resource? We’re working on that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s utilities are running pilot projects and studying how bidirectional charging might work and how electric car owners could be compensated for selling energy to the grid.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chanel Parson, director of electrification, Southern California Edison\"]‘By selling it back to the grid when our rates are more expensive, then that actually helps reduce customers’ energy bills.’[/pullquote]The California Public Utilities Commission has studied the issue for more than a decade, said spokesperson Terrie D. Prosper, including funding pilot projects and establishing two working groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year many utilities signed a “Vehicle to Everything” \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-04/OTT%20V2X%20MOU%20Final%20%281%29.pdf\">memorandum of understanding\u003c/a> with car manufacturers, state agencies, the federal government and others seeking to accelerate all aspects of bidirectional charging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Edison, which serves about 5 million businesses and residences, wants to go beyond using bidirectional charging as just an emergency backup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanel Parson, Edison’s director of electrification, said the utility is working on a rate program that would allow customers to sell their power back to the grid every day of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By selling it back to the grid when our rates are more expensive, then that actually helps reduce customers’ energy bills. And it could be so economically attractive that they’re actually making money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric, which serves 5.5 million electric customers in Northern California, said it is aggressively looking to build what it calls a robust vehicle-to-grid-integration. It has partnerships with \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3741-power-pg-e-bmw-north-america-start-v2x-testing-california\">BMW of North America\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3413-pg-e-ford-collaborate-bidirectional-electric-vehicle-charging-technology-customers-homes\">Ford Motor Company\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3410-pg-e-general-motors-collaborate-pilot-reimagine-use-electric-vehicles-backup-power-sources-customers\">General Motors\u003c/a> exploring bidirectional charging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility last year launched the nation’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3444-pg-e-launch-new-pilots-studying-electric-vehicle-bidirectional-charging-technology-homes-businesses-microgrids\">bidirectional charging pilot\u003c/a> available to residential customers, offering up to 1,000 customers $2,500 for enrolling and up to an additional $2,175, depending on their participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power also is conducting a pilot project using a small fleet of Nissan Leafs. The utility hopes the technology will eventually provide power during peak load times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five years is definitely within reach,” said José María Paz, the utility’s project manager for vehicle-to-grid integration. “Technology is advancing quite fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School buses are a test case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The electric school buses at the Cajon Valley Union School District in San Diego County are among a number of school district pilot projects in California. Experts see school buses as a good option for two-way charging because they have set routes and are often parked during peak load times between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m.[aside label='More on Electric Vehicles' tag='electric-cars']Nationally, Nuvve has about 350 school buses connected to its platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Cajon Valley district, seven electric buses sent 767-kilowatt hours of power back to the grid during the heat wave between Aug. 17 and Sept. 9, according to Nuvve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with Nuvve, the buses power up when energy is less expensive, said Tysen Brodwolf, the district’s transportation director. Brodwolf said there are still several quirks, including the chargers not communicating properly with the grid or someone improperly plugging in a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we’re getting there every day,” Brodwolf said. “We’re working through all those bumps and obviously, when you take on a pilot project, you have to take that into consideration that things aren’t necessarily going to go smoothly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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