Natural Gas School Buses Help Kansas City save Money
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Our success story this week looks at the Kansas City, Kansas,
public schools and their sparkling new fleet of 47
compressed natural gas school buses.
Made possible by a Recovery Act grant from the Department of Energy
through the Kansas City Regional Clean Cities coalition,
the project includes 35 time-fill dispensers with dual hoses
and an additional fill area to handle more CNG buses in the future.
Two compressors automatically slow-fill the buses overnight
so they're ready to roll in the morning.
As the first public schools in the state to run CNG buses,
officials hope to be a model for other districts.
That's absolutely what we want to do—is be the forerunner of this
and the example for other school districts and other children.
Federal CNG tax credits will help reduce fuel costs by one-third
while displacing some 112,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year.
That puts Kansas City, Kansas, in passing gear
as the go-green education movement gains speed.
