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Tech partners seek to turn electric school bus batteries into 1GW virtual power plant

July 16, 2021
Electric school buses in the US could be turned into a virtual power plant (VPP) resource, through a new partnership between student transport supplier Zum Services and artificial intelligence-driven distributed energy software company AutoGrid.
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