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Originally Posted by skyscraperaccount
I would have thought they'd use industrial battery storage.
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I thought they had plans for battery storage at site. But a lot of this is always site dependent. If they can't get enough storage or grid service to that site, they have to add gas generators. Still a lot cleaner and cheaper than diesel.
Dropped from rockephish's snippet is that they currently plan to use the generators about 120 hrs per year. That's really not that much.
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What will the generators be used for?
The main purpose of the natural gas generators will be to serve as a backup power supply so buses can continue to charge in the case of a power outage.
"If a local grid outage were to occur, this project would require a power-generation source large enough to provide charging to the e-bus fleet, potentially for multi-day operation," Daniel Villeneuve, manager of the zero-emission bus program, wrote in a statement to the Ottawa Citizen.
In addition, the city says it also plans to run the generators during "peak demand periods."
These periods usually occur in the afternoons and evenings on days when there is higher-than-average city-wide demand on the power grid. It's not an everyday thing, Villeneuve said, adding it happens around 30 days a year on the higher end of the yearly average.
"Based on these estimates at the high end, the generators could run for about 120 hours a year for peak demand periods, taking the pressure off the public grid when the community needs it most," Villeneuve wrote.
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This is just ragebait. Targeted at people who will come along and see a headline like this and declare E-buses as greenwashing.
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