BREAKOUT SPONSORED BY NATIONAL GRID - We will review our current Commercial & Industrial, Multifamily and Residential Energy Efficiency program offerings for our service territories of Brooklyn, Staten Island, parts of Queens and Long Island.

Urban Green, NYSERDA and a group of 30 heat pump experts are developing a roadmap for scaling heat pumps in NYC's large multifamily buildings. Financial and technical hurdles have kept archaic fossil fuel systems deeply rooted in multifamily buildings for decades. We have ideas on how to break this cycle and get owners and tenants onboard.

We’ll explore the operational and financial impact of electrifying heating and cooling systems that leverage distributed generation systems (CHP, Solar, battery storage) to help offset large capital investments. We’ll focus on multifamily buildings constructed in the past 10 years in which various configurations of VRF and distributed generation were implemented, as well as retrofits of existing buildings.

This session will provide an overview of New York State policies and programs that are driving the industry toward low carbon buildings for retrofit and new construction. The speakers – policymakers and building experts – will describe in detail New York’s new policy context...

Building owners are faced with huge challenges to improve building performance in today’s NYC market. Updating equipment and buildings to operate as “smart buildings” is part of the solution to drive down energy and utility costs. To maximize the investment of smart technology, owners need to...

This session will detail factors contributing to optimal human health, both indoors and outdoors in the built environment; study emerging data from Harvard’s Ventilation/IAQ project and its hoped-for effect on affordable housing developers, policymakers, and capital providers; advise on hazardous chemicals and healthier choices of materials specifically related to electrification; and lay out key electrification strategies for protecting health in a socially equitable and cost-effective manner.

Speakers will provide an overview of NYC’s Climate Mobilization Act and the NYC Retrofit Accelerator’s High Performance Track, present new resources for deep energy retrofits including technology primers created specifically for building owners and decision-makers, and provide a case study of an exemplary project that has completed a high performance retrofit project.

As municipalities, states and federal mandates push for carbon reductions, fossil free buildings and a clean grid emerge as critical pathways. Achieving this on any building poses seriously challenges; however, when evaluating large buildings, the challenges become even more difficult. This panel of experts has extensive experience designing, testing and monitoring both new construction and existing buildings attempting to achieve high performance, low-carbon goals.