The Public School Bus Set-Aside is a coordinated effort with California Energy Commission (CEC) to provide funding for the replacement of older, internal combustion engine school buses with zero-emission (ZE) school buses and complementary charging/fueling infrastructure. The funding is part of a commitment to prioritize the deployment of ZE school buses and their accompanying charging/fueling infrastructure. Incentives for school buses are administered through HVIP, and the charging/fueling incentives are administered through the CEC’s Energy Infrastructure Incentives for Zero-Emission Commercial Vehicles (EnergIIZE) program. Incentives are intended for underserved rural public schools located in small and medium-sized air districts which have historically received less funding for replacement programs than large air districts.
More about this program
The FY 2022-23 funding year for HVIP School Bus Set-Aside is in progress and does not have project statistics available at this time.
The SB 114 funds are not yet available. First year funding will be available starting in FY 2023-24.
