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General Resources

Sustainable Westchester Resources

Understanding Your Con Ed Bill

The First Step to Energy Savings is Understanding Your Bill – Con Ed

Community Solar

Solar Energy Has Never Been Easier. Go Solar-No Panels on your Roof & Save Up to 10% on Your Bill

Heat Smart Residential

Air Source Heat Pumps & Geothermal: Lower Your Emissions with Fossil Fuel-Free Energy Efficient Heating & Cooling

Green Energy

What is Green Energy? Understanding the Basics

Westchester Power

Learn about Your Emissions-Free Community Energy Program – Making Renewable Doable

Clean Transportation

Hybrid/EV EZ Pass Green Pass Discount Plan, which offers a special 10% discount to Hybrid vehicles getting at least 45 miles

New York Plug-In Electric Vehicle Rebate Program-NYSERDA

Electric Vehicles Make a Positive Environmental Impact. Learn about Electric Vehicles & Programs

Con Edison Resources

89 cent LED bulb offer!

Get $5,000 off a Dandelion Geothermal 3-in-1 system: year-round comfort without oil or gas

Get up to $6,500 to improve your attic

Charge off-peak and earn up to $500 with Smart Charge New York

Boost your home value with solar

Get your Sensi Smart Thermostat for just $49

Con Ed Electric Car Marketplace

NYSERDA Resources

Solar and heat pumps go together like peanut butter and jelly

Four smart things to save energy

Heat Smart: clean heating and cooling for your home

Electric Car Rebate

Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrids and Electric Vehicles

The Ins and Outs of Electric Vehicles — an Owner’s Perspective, by Tom and Celeste Theis

EVs for residents from Sustainable Westchester

Is it just as easy to own an electric vehicle as a traditional gas-powered one? NBC News, October 30, 2019

Con Edison’s electric-vehicle programs

EV-Resource: a leading source of information and education on EVs

Electric School Bus Resources

BEST Framework

The BEST (Bus Electrification for School Transportation) framework allows for easy comparison of electric school buses and fossil fuel buses. It automatically produces graphical charts of Total Cost of Ownership and Cumulative Carbon Savings. It also serves as a repository of resources to convince School officials, transportation staff and the voting public about the benefits of electric school buses in a quantified manner.

Click here to download the BEST framework, which is in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.

See the “Intro” tab for instructions on how to use this framework.

Email us if you have any problems or questions or feedback.

Version history:

v1.1	5/23/2021	Initial version, included charger costs and subsidy thereof
v1.2	5/23/2021	Bug fixes, better defaults
v1.3	5/24/2021	Added data validation and locking of sheets + option to show tax levy per household
v1.4	5/25/2021	Fixed bugs, improved documentation
v1.5	6/5/2021	Allowed fuel and maintenance costs to be per mile or per year; added “Release notes” tab; removed 19% discount for NY electricity carbon
v1.6	6/20/2021	Added support for inflation and Net Present Value calculations
v1.7	7/22/2021	Added support for Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) annual revenue
v1.8	3/18/2022	Fixed bug in V2G calculations in the per-household cost display option
v1.9	9/7/2022	Updated resources; added WRI reference; updated pointer to State OGS E-bus buying page

Recent Articles

Article in the Croton Gazette, April 14, 2022, about the success of a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) pilot with Lion electric school buses in White Plains.
Boston to replace (700) school buses with electric ones by 2030, starting with 20 buses this year, Associated Press, April 7, 2022.
Electric school buses are reaching cost parity with diesel, and a California district will deploy one of the largest e-bus fleets in the state, Electrek article by Scooter Doll, March 18, 2022.

Introductory material

The Case for Electric School Buses, 2-page colorful brochure from Vermont Energy Investment Corp.
The Case for Electric School Buses, courtesy of Transfinder
Paying for Electric Buses, Financing Tools for Cities and Agencies to Ditch Diesel, Matt Casale and Brendan Mahoney, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Fall 2018
Clean Bus Guide published by the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Speaking Up for Electric School Buses, Jennifer Wallace-Brodeur of VEIC, School Transportation Online, June 2019
School Districts Rolling Out Electric Buses as Economics Improve: ‘It’s Time to Switch’, Justin Gerdes, Greentech Media, November 2018
Vermont Energy Investment Corp’s fact sheet on electric school bus models, last updated year-end 2019
Croton100 presentation on electric school bus issues at Care for Creation Ministry, January 2021, click here to view recording
Croton100 presentation to the Croton Bus Electrification Task Force, December 2020

Funding sources

CURE100’s Comments on NYSERDA’s Proposed EPA School E-Bus Guidelines, August 21, 2023
Croton100 cost analysis and recommendations to Croton Harmon School District, March 2021
New York League of Conservation Voters and Croton100 open letter to Croton Harmon Board of Education on electric bus issue, March 2021
New York Truck Voucher Incentive Program, There’s Never Been a Better Time to Upgrade Your Fleet to Cleaner Vehicle Technology (Implementation Manual PDF)
Charge Ready New York (NYSERDA program that provides funding for installation of charging stations)
ConEdison Smart Charge Program extended to medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles, John B. Rhodes, Public Service Commission Chair, September 2018

Studies and experiences in various school districts

Accelerating the Transition to Electric School Buses, PIRG Report, February 2021
The Wheels on These Buses Go Round and Round With Zero Emissions, Brad Plumer, New York Times, November 2018 (report on use of electric school buses in White Plains)
Making the Case, Student Transportation News, October 2020
School Bus Emissions, student health performance and academic performance, Wes Austin, Garth Heutel, Daniel Kreisman, Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, March 2019
Two commentaries on the above scholarly work: Brookings and Chicago Policy Review
Notes on National Conference on Sustainable Development “Electric School Bus Toolkit” webinar, Patty L. Buchanan, May 27, 2020
White Plains Electric School Bus V2G Project, April 30, 2020, by Ari Kahn, Con Edison
Facts About the Croton School District’s Mischaracterization of the White Plains School District’s (WPSD) Experience with Electric Buses

Bedford 2030 Tree Forum

Calculation of how many trees Bedford would need to offset all of its carbon emissions
Climate literacy quiz prepared for Bedford 2030 Tree Forum, March 25, 2023

Croton Earth Day 2023

Climate literacy quiz prepared for Croton Earth Day celebration, April 29, 2023

AFOLU / Food / Waste Resources

Note: AFOLU stands for “Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use”
Greta Thunberg connects climate, ecological and health crises
Bedford “Leave the Leaves” program
Ahara: Association for Health and Reversing Ailments (all about whole-food plant-based diet including free cooking classes)

CURE100 Master Plan, Presentations and More...

Croton100 Carbon Playbooks