NYSERDA Awards $29M+ to Reduce Carbon Emissions
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced more than $29 million has been awarded through Round XIV of the Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) Initiative to 15 innovative projects that will reduce statewide carbon emissions. The projects, seven which are located in disadvantaged communities, were selected by NYSERDA to participate in the Building Cleaner Communities Competition or Commercial and Industrial Carbon Challenge program and will advance community and economic development across New York State.
“Innovative solutions like those awarded today are transforming how we design, operate and power buildings across New York State,” said NYSERDA President and CEO Doreen M. Harris. “Retrofitting existing structures and processes with carbon reducing strategies and breaking ground on cutting-edge new construction is how the state will stay at the forefront as we move toward a clean energy economy.”
The Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Carbon Challenge is a competitive program that provides funding to large energy users such as manufacturers, colleges, universities, health care facilities and office building owners in New York State to implement clean energy projects that reduce carbon emissions. Projects may utilize a combination of energy or manufacturing process efficiency strategies, carbon capture technology, low-carbon fuel utilization, renewable generation or energy storage.
NYSERDA awarded $14.1 million for five projects located in the Finger Lakes, North Country, New York City and Western New York including:
- Kraft Heinz Company reducing emissions facility-wide by 92% through equipment electrification, more efficient heating and installation of on-site thermal storage technology in Lowville, N.Y.
- American Rock Salt Co.’s shift to using an electric continuous miner as an alternative method of extraction, decreasing fossil fuel consumption and reduce emissions in Mount Morris, N.Y.
- RED-Rochester’s elimination of vented waste steam, installing three solar PV arrays, and replacing centrifugal air compressors with state-of-the-art machines, in Rochester, N.Y.
- The EME Consulting Engineering and Architecture Group’s design and development of the largest geothermal heating and cooling system in the Northeast for Fordham University at their Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx, NY.
- Skyven Technologies, an expert industrial decarbonization firm, will work with Lactalis to install an efficient, electrified heat system capable of reaching high temperatures at their plant in Buffalo, N.Y.
NYSERDA awarded more than $15 million for 10 projects located in the Capital District, Mid-Hudson, Mohawk Valley, New York City and Western New York including:
- Hawthorne Valley’s rehabilitation of four education buildings to become carbon neutral.
- The Schenectady Environmental Education Center (SEEC) adaptive reuse of a long-vacant building to be a net-zero facility.
- The Tunnel, a new high-performance mixed-use project in Port Jervis.
- Ulster County’s Public Safety construction of a new communications building that will incorporate ground-source heat pumps and a roof mounted solar that will supply 25% of the building’s electrical needs.
- Chester Agricultural Center Farmwork Housing’s construction of a new mixed-use, affordable all-electric housing development that is Passive House certified.
- Hamilton College’s construction of a 41,000-square-=foot computer and data science facility as an all-electric project.
- The Brownsville Arts Center, a new all-electric, high-performance 28,000-square-foot building that will be Passive House-certified.
- The HEArts Community Center’s adaptively reuse of a vacant, 23,577-square-foot historic building.
- The Beacon MultiService Center’s adaptive reuse expansion project as a Passive House certified building.
- The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens’ modernization project that will demonstrate high efficiency design and will minimize emissions during the new construction process.
