According to Inside Indiana Business, administrators with the Indiana Office of Energy Development (OED) recently announced that six Indiana public school corporations will receive $142,202 from the OED’s yearly Indiana Propane School Bus (PSB) grant program.
This is OED’s second grant specifically dedicated to propane school buses. The participating schools will benefit from propane school buses in a variety of ways, including decreasing school children’s exposure to harmful particulate matter, lowering maintenance costs through the use of a cleaner burning fuel and increasing fuel diversity.
The OED intends for recipients to track their miles driven, fuel usage and cost savings for one year after the buses are put into use. That data should help the recipients, their communities and peers to better understand their fueling options.
PSB projects must involve the purchase of a minimum of two new propane school buses. The winning schools must have access to propane fueling infrastructure or show that they will have access if they are awarded a grant. OED expects participants to demonstrate their need for the project and how it will benefit the school corporation.
