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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Highland Electric Fleet is the vendor for the "electrification as a service" contract, which I'll be honest and say I don't fully understand. This story contains a link to the Board of Education resolution: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/maryland-county-electric-school-buses[/quote]

Will they use the diesel engines in the current busses to generate electricity for the new electric busses?[/quote]

Well, there did you think electricity comes from? [/quote]
Far easier to clean up thousands of power plants than millions of tailpipes. And, no, grid electricity in the US doesn't generally come from diesel.[/quote]

Coal then...[/quote]

For Maryland, about 40% of the electricity is generated by natural gas and another 40% is generated by nuclear. About 10% by coal.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Not according to the State of Maryland
https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=MD#tabs-4[/quote]
That's roughly what your linked graph shows.[/quote]

The quoted website stated that for July 2022, MD use more natural gas than nuclear for that month.  Right above the graph in the quick fact section, it stated that "In 2020, Maryland’s only nuclear power plant--the Calvert Cliffs power station--accounted for 41% of the state's total electricity net generation."

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busses really powered by fossil fuels or nuclear waste ...  [/quote]

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