1. REV Campus Challenge Lindsay Holle AEE Capital District
November 8, 2016

2. Agenda REV Campus Challenge overview REV CC member update
Member benefits
Recognition
Workshops
Technical and financial assistance

3. REV Campus Challenge Recognize and support C&U clean energy actions
On campus
In the classroom
In the community
Governor’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV)
REV CC is part of Governor Cuomo’s REV, a strategy to build a clean, resilient, and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers.
Talk more about the ways in which a campus can be recognized later in the presentation.

4. Eligibility ALL colleges and universities
Two- and four-year
Public and private
Statewide
ALL levels of clean energy expertise
Contact person on institution staff/faculty
Recognize that colleges and universities exist in various forms and sizes, each with its own unique path to delivering educational success and adopting clean energy technologies.
In recognition of this fact, REV CC has identified three distinct membership levels.

5. Membership Membership Levels No fees
Participant
Achiever
Leader
No fees
Integrates seamlessly with existing goals
Intent – tailor resources and activities provided by or nurtured by the REV CC with the needs and barriers affecting that membership group.
i.e. AASHE STARS, NYCCC, EO88/NYEM
Integrates with goals and reporting

6. Current Membership – 55 Total

7. Current Membership – 55 Total

8. Member Benefits
Amplify your outreach and marketing through recognition
Achieve statewide, national acknowledgement of your commitment to clean energy from expert, third party
Make your institution more attractive to prospective students, faculty
Prepare students for growing clean energy job market
Get technical and financial resources to help you succeed
Lower energy bills, enhance resiliency, reduce GHG
Mentor and collaborate with other institutions
Build stronger relationships with surrounding community

9. Member Benefits
Targeted recognition for progress toward and achievement of clean energy goals
Exclusive access to funding to drive clean energy projects and initiatives
Regular opportunities to have your needs heard by NYSERDA
Venues for resource and best practices sharing

10. Membership Join your Peers! Clean Energy Activities Survey
Faculty or staff contact
REV CC Member Agreement
Self-select membership level
CE Activities Survey
– only about 20 questions, all checkboxes (yes or no)
– help you understand the realm of CE opportunities for C&U, and help with self-selection
Faculty/Staff contact
– we will follow up with this individual after we review your online submission.
Member Agreement
– Does require online initial by a President or designee.
– Very short statement illustrating your institution’s intent to advance its clean energy initiatives and, in doing so, engage with the campus and surrounding community to promote clean energy efforts.

11. Areas of Contribution Campus Classroom Community
Clean energy investment, GHG reduction
Classroom
Educate
Integrate
Allocate
Community
Partnership, coordination
Workforce development
Campus
Set and make progress toward GHG reduction goal
Engage in existing statewide, national challenges that support goals
Classroom
Educate students about sustainability concepts and clean energy practices
Integrate concepts into existing curricula or create new courses
Allocate institutional resources for R&D in sustainability fields
Community
Interact and engage with surrounding community to promote adoption of clean energy technologies and sustainability practices
Result in GHG emission reduction and avoidance

12. Recognition ALL members
Highlight cool clean energy project, initiative
Make, renew a clean energy commitment
Reach milestone in existing challenges, activities, or contests
All members will be recognized for one or more of the following:
Challenges – i.e. AASHE STARS, ACUPCC, NYC CC)
Milestones – must embody any of the three REV CC Areas of Contribution (i.e. awarded EO88 Energy Manager of the Year, receiving AASHE STARS Gold/Silver/Bronze for the first time)

13. Recognition First Movers – joined in first six months
30% of target REV CC membership in first year
Princeton Review Green Honor Roll
AASHE 2016 Sustainable Campus Index
30% -> 120 (48%) institutions by 2019, 140 (56%) institutions by 2022, 150 (60%) institutions by 2025
Princeton Review – SUNY ESF, Cornell

14. Recognition Could look like… Ongoing
Facebook, twitter, other social media
REV CC website s
Conferences, events
Awards
Certificates, plaques
Ongoing
Leveraging existing energy-related conferences as a recognition platform
Recognition – first movers, 30% member goal, Princeton Review Green Honor Roll, AASHE annual report
Plans to make much more concerted effort to recognize members going into 2017 and beyond

15. Workshops Held Spring 2016 Focused discussion:
40+ attendees, 30+ institutions
Focused discussion:
Challenges to implementing clean energy on campus
Potential solutions, opportunities for NYSERDA intervention
Upcoming programs direct result of workshop feedback
Will hold another - Spring 2017
V successful/valuable, follow-up survey to confirm take-aways
Expert round robin style? Breakouts – learn and discuss obstacles, possible interventions

16. Upcoming Funding/Assistance
REV CC member exclusive!
Technical assistance
Open enrollment through July 2018
Cost shared - higher than FlexTech
Student assistance grants
Target – Participant member level
Roadmap - actionable next steps
If don’t see what you want/need – go to FT

17. Upcoming Funding/Assistance
REV CC members – Early 2017
Based on workshop feedback
Student/faculty engagement
Smaller awards
Project-based
REV CC workshop - Spring 2017

18. Current Funding/Assistance
FlexTech
Up to $250k each project; open to all
Real Time Energy Management
Choose a Qualified Vendor
Cost-sharing for installation and up to 5 years of analytic services that will provide recommendations to reduce energy usage
Commercial Implementation Assistance
Up to $150k each project
Works in conjunction with local utility programs

19. Summary and Next Steps Recognition for clean energy activities
Campus, classroom, community
Exclusive access to funding and resources
Get your voice heard – Workshops
Join your peers – 55 members and counting!
Join today! nyserda.ny.gov/rev-campus-challenge
Recognition – progress toward and achievement of
Funding – to drive CE projects/initiatives, so we can recognize you
Workshops – regular opportunity to voice your concerns, have them translated into real support

20. Questions
Web:
Lindsay Holle, NYSERDA
Sophie Cardona, NYSERDA
NYPA
Luthin Associates