Maryland Cooks Up Green Hydrogen Scheme To Kill Diesel Buses
New bus depot in Maryland blows up the Internet with solar powered green hydrogen production on site.The largest self-sustaining bus depot in the entire US is coming to Montgomery County, Maryland, featuring solar arrays and on-site green hydrogen production. That may not sound too exciting if you can afford to buy the latest shiny new electric car, but it is exciting for underserved communities in the area.
The green hydrogen angle was in play last summer, when the Montgomery County Department of Transportation won a $15 million matching grant from the US Department of TransportationMCDOT had to compete against other transit agencies to nail down the award. The FTA only had a total of $1 billion to hand out for transit modernization and it received proposals totaling more than $7.7 billion.
By self-sustaining they mean a microgrid system that can detach from the wider grid in an emergency and keep going indefinitely. The plans call for on-site rooftop and canopy-style solar arrays totaling 5 megawatts , along with a 2 MW/7.35 MWh battery energy storage system. If all goes according to plan, the whole works will go online early in 2025, just in time to receive the new fleet of 13 fuel cell buses.
Things get more complicated when Scope 2 comes into play. Scope 2 refers to the supply chain. For example, a battery-powered vehicle that recharges from a grid mix that includes fossil energy can’t claim zero for Scope 2 emissions. The same goes for a fuel cell that runs on fossil-sourced hydrogen.
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