The funding is being made under the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, created by Assembly Bill 118.
Of the two recipients, Los Angeles Unified School District is the highest beneficiary with a funding of about $300,000, while Walnut Valley Unified School District will receive $278,261.
The program is slated to invest about $90m for the fiscal year 2013 in order to boost the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate change goals.
Commenting on the initiative energy commissioner, Janea A. Scott said the funding will be used by both the schools in the installation and up-gradation of natural gas fueling stations to accommodate additional alternative fuel school buses.
The funding will help to provide compressed natural gas fueling infrastructure for the schools.
