Focus area
Climate Initiatives
Fleets, buildings, energy procurement, and emissions strategies require an interdisciplinary perspective.
What we do
We want to support your organization's unique decarbonization priorities
Across strategy development, incentive and funding support, and project implementation.
Capabilities
Five practice areas
Fleet Electrification
Transition planning, technology evaluation, utility coordination, and bidirectional charging.
Energy Systems
Energy infrastructure, battery storage, load-shifting, and resilience planning.
Clean Energy Procurement
Utility engagement and green tariffs, PPAs, and 24/7 carbon-free energy strategies.
Emissions Analysis
GHG inventories, Scope 1–3 analysis, and climate reporting.
Strategy Development
Targets, roadmaps, and implementation strategy.
Road to zero emissions
Fleet Electrification & Grid Services
Our team has worked on fleet transitions from the federal program level down to individual organizations. We can support fleets across the country—campus, school district, municipal, etc.—to plan their transition, secure funding, and turn charging infrastructure into a grid asset.
- Transition planning, vehicle and charger selection, and utility coordination
- Incentive and grant strategy, including federal, state, and utility programs
- Managed charging, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) feasibility, and rate analysis
- Interconnection and demand charge planning
Electric school buses providing grid services
Electric school buses spend most of the day parked, on predictable schedules, with large batteries. That makes them one of the best candidates for vehicle-to-grid service in any fleet. Updraft Energy developed, organized, and moderated a session for STN Expo West on electric school buses, managed charging, and the ability for EVs to serve as energy assets for the grid.
Grant (Updraft co-founder) led the discussion on Fremont Unified School District’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) electric school bus project, with insights from their transportation director, Ernest Epley, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s vehicle-grid integration expert, Rudi Halbright.
It was a great conversation around the opportunities for fleets to earn revenue and provide the grid with resiliency benefits, with plenty of honest advice on real challenges and conditions required to make these deployments worthwhile. While V2G is mostly in the pilot stage due to technical complexity and murky incentive structures across different utility environments, Rudi laid out the opportunity in simple terms: There is no way the best use for a school bus is to sit there parked most of the time if it could do something else.
What we supported
- Session concept, framing, and panel design
- Speaker recruitment
- Moderation and question sets
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