Meeting with Mr. Klingensmith

April 5, 2023

Notes

• James Jimmy Klingensmith

• Class of 2008

• Pomona environmental analysis (EA)

  • 6-7 tracts

• Sustainable Business Practices - graduate (UOregon - Charles)

  • Sustainability is the heart of the program

• Beverly Hills is a project

• Similar to a PPA

• 2027 mandate for all NYS

• Highland has lobbying and levers to pull

  • Could you advocate for private schools

• About highland

  • Largest buyer of e-buses (get competitive prices)
  • Julia Gasbarre and James are from the fleet solutions team
  • Services
    • Build depots cost
      • Procure school buses
      • Get chargers
      • Manage the construction of depot upgrades
    • Pay for all of electricity (asterisks)
      • Software to charge at the best time
    • Train drivers
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• Different plans

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  • Just chargers, just upgrades, or buses too

• Swap in buses - spare diesels

• Granular with bus routes - get the shortest route first

• Do the smallest routes first. Longer routes later. Monitoring.

• Level 2 charging.

• Only do V2G with level 3 charger. More expensive. ($6k)

• Incentives

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  • Call it a pilot in order to get ConEdison to agree to V2G (for political reasons)
  • NYSERDA
    • Clean School Bus Program only applies to public schools
  • SuperSelby applies for grants. Highland helps with writing grants (they have a grant-writing team)
  • $32,000 for 12 years=$384,000
  • Make case for EPA Clean School Bus Program
    • Make case as a leader in this transition
    • Make a case having SuperSelby has depot in underserved communities

Todo

• KNF, Mr. Schultz, Me (in-person)
  • Make the case that we bring James
• See if James can join SEB meeting
• Reschedule meeting
• Hanifa Barnes
• Have James send over the slides