New Efficiency: New York

NYSEG customers in the Town of Lansing, NY are also eligible

RetrofitNY is a NYSERDA initiative funded through the Clean Energy Fund. It offers a strategy to drive deep energy reductions and to preserve affordable housing. The initiative is retrofit multifamily affordable housing to net zero energy performance levels with residents in place Create a large scale, self-sustaining market for retrofit solutions achieving or approaching net zero energy performance with the tenants in place Limited disruption, limited intervention time on site off site manufacturing Empower the industry to create these impactful technical solutions that dramatically reduce net-energy usage and create more comfortable, healthier, and better looking buildings Catalyze the market through demand aggregation and partnership with forward-thinking building owners and industry players Making it easy for new solutions to be installed at scale by working with the right people and organizations to finance these solutions and guarantee their performance by creating the right environment: create the right financing pathways, remove regulatory barriers (Dutch model)

Sponsor successive rounds of demonstration projects to improve the performance and lower the cost of net zero retrofts Work with strategic partners to foster prefabricated high-performance building component manufacturing in New York State Support the development of integrated solution provider companies capable of delivering net zero retrofts Identify additional value streams for high-performance buildings (e.g., grid responsiveness, thermal and acoustic comfort, indoor air quality) Identify and address regulatory barriers Develop private sector fnancing products to monetize long-term operational savings