Concord Light Board Approves Bus Charging Rate
Concord Light Board approved a pilot rate paying the town's electric school bus operator for sending power back to the grid at peak hours.
Other Committee · Meeting of June 18, 2026
Concord Light Board approved a pilot rate paying the town's electric school bus operator for sending power back to the grid at peak hours. The board voted 5-0 at its June 18 meeting to adopt the vehicle-to-grid tariff, which adds a $90 monthly meter fee and an $1.83 demand charge while crediting discharges at 6.5 cents per kilowatt-hour plus $55.68 per kilowatt-year in capacity credit and $14 per kilowatt-month for transmission. CMLP staff member Laura said the pricing mirrors wholesale market value so there is "not necessarily a disadvantage" to nonparticipating customers.
New member Tyson Kupczynski, a cybersecurity executive, joined the board, and John Dalton ran his first meeting as chair. Resident Gail Heyer pressed staff on customer-data privacy, asking, "How do you know that the person is actually the customer?"
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Source: the Other Committee meeting of June 18, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.
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