Old bus batteries are getting new life as a backup power supply for Everett Transit.
BattGenie, a startup based in Austin, Texas and Seattle that focuses on energy storage and software to manage it, installed the system in January.
Everett’s not paying anything for the unit housed in a small shipping container on a corner of its Cedar Street lot. The tech hub gets to collect data and test its concept on an open-ended timeline.
The system uses old electric bus batteries from King County Metro that don’t have their full charge capacity.
But the batteries still hold energy. Combined with dozens of others, they have enough charge to power 10 homes for one hour, co-founder and CEO Manan Pathak said during a demonstration last week.
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