ROCKVILLE, Maryland — A suburban county of Washington, D.C., broke ground last week on a new kind of bus depot that could serve as a model for climate-friendly transportation.
The microgrid project in Montgomery County — spearheaded by the energy supply company AlphaStruxure — will transform Rockville’s David F. Bone Equipment Maintenance and Transit Operations Center into the nation’s largest renewable energy-powered transit facility by late 2025.
It will be the first on the East Coast to feature on-site green hydrogen production.
The 5.5-megawatt microgrid will boast a solar array, electric bus chargers, battery storage and a hydrogen electrolyzer powered by solar panels. It’s also self-contained allowing independent operations during power outages.
