NYS Electrification Pilot Programs: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Yes, important content on funding sources for LMI decarb projects 

Yes - I think the session description is really important! Some fine tuning suggestions working towards the final session: the objectives go broader than I think should be covered in one session. Are the case study projects complete? Is post-retrofit have data available yet? From objectives:  "including projected performance, construction costs, and data to be collected from participant buildings."  If no data yet, maybe combining some lessons learned in NY with data from the Mass Saves incentives program could help tie the program to proven results, or the ConEd electrification pilots if they have data? Or should the learning objectives be targeted at how to design to meet necessary savings with project costs that can be approved?

Round 1 discussion: Best Practices is on funding or on completed retrofits performance. Good to have contractor or engineering firm to join the speaker to show how collaboration was done and how it made it successful/ how things were implemented faster and more successfully. Make sure people get what they expect to get out of it.

Would it make sense to have an equity angle worked in, or is that not the focus here?

Second round recommendation - YESResponses to committee comments:Q: “In this session the administrators of two of the state’s major electrification programs, HPD’s Electrification Pilot in partnership with NYSERDA and the HCR funded Climate Friendly Homes Program, will discuss progress to date and best practices.” –Best practices on funding or on completed retrofit performance?A: Best practices relating to putting projects together, operational costs, how to design electrification projects so that we get the best outcome.Q: Are the case study projects complete?  Is post-retrofit data available? (*projected performance)A: No, none of the case study projects are built yet.Q: If no post-retrofit data is available, would you consider combining lessons learned here with data from the Mass Saves incentive program or the Con Ed Electrification Pilots to tie the program to proven results?A: Not sure how we would do that, how would the pilots/programs correlate, how would they get the data.  We might be able to bring Bright Power in with electrification data.Q: If no data, would you consider refining the learning objectives so that they are targeted at how to design to meet necessary savings with project costs that can be approved?A: Without the data, we cannot prove or design to meet necessary savings.  Design is based on estimated savings and not on actual data.Q: Would you consider inviting a contractor or engineering firm join the speakers to show how collaboration was done and how it made the project successful / how things were implemented faster and more successfully?A: Proposer has another conference later this month with owner and architect (Magnussen) on one pilot, will see how that goes and will consider including them in this session if all goes well.Q: Consider working an equity angle into the session, or is that not the focus?A: The focus of this session has equity at its core.