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NYSERDA Updates

Following, you will find monthly updates about NYSERDA's programs for affordable and market-rate residential buildings, including one- to four-family homes and apartment buildings. This column will keep you informed about new incentives or changes to existing programs that apply to NYC.

  • NYSERDA Creates New NYC Director Position: Michael Colgrove to Lead City Operations

    NYSERDA has created a new senior position in the NYC office; Michael Colgrove is the new Director of Energy Programs for NYSERDA's New York City office.  Colgrove's responsibilities include leading the New York City staff to promote, design, implement and deliver commercial/industrial, and residential energy efficiency programs to businesses and residents of New York City. He is committed to leading and achieving NYSERDA's established energy efficiency goals for New York City energy consumers. 

    Colgrove has been in NYSERDA's NYC office since 2001; before accepting this promotion, he was a Senior Project Manager in the Residential Efficiency and Affordability Program.  Prior to coming to NYSERDA, he was a Project Manager and Energy Manager for the Association for Energy Affordability and a Professor at New York City Technical College where he taught building owners, managers and maintenance staff energy management procedures.  Colgrove was also an Energy Manager at Apex Environmental Inc., where he performed comprehensive energy audits and lighting surveys on U.S. Postal Service facilities and integrated geothermal heat pump, day-lighting, photovoltaic, and fuel cell technologies into retrofit work scopes.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from the University of Alaska and a Master of Science degree in Energy Management from the New York Institute of Technology.

  • Solar Incentives Available:

    After an unanticipated surge in applications for NYSERDA solar incentives, the Public Service Commission (PSC) issued an Order, effective October 28, 2008, to reallocate funding to for solar incentives. As part of that Order, the PSC authorized $20.6 million for the solar photovoltaic (PV) category. Please visit http://www.powernaturally.com/Programs/Solar/incentives.aspexternal link icon for more information. The PSC's full Order is hereexternal link icon Adobe Reader icon.

    If you have any question regarding the PV Incentive Program, please email [Sorry, display of this email address requires a Javascript-aware browser, in order to deter spam. Please use the general contact page instead.]. Any Loan Fund questions may be directed to [Sorry, display of this email address requires a Javascript-aware browser, in order to deter spam. Please use the general contact page instead.]. For more general information on NYSERDA PV incentives: www.powernaturally.orgexternal link icon

  • New Incentives for NYC Contractors to join NYSERDA's Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® program.

    For a limited time, NYC contractors are eligible to receive 100% reimbursement for training and test fees to become certified by the Building Performance Institute (BPI), which sets nationally recognized technical standards. BPI certification is a prerequisite to joining the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program which provides incentives to both homeowners and contractors to undertake energy efficiency improvements in one- to four-family homes. For more information: www.getenergysmart.orgexternal link icon

  • Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® Program provides increased incentives to homeowners for making energy efficiency improvements.

    Enriched incentives are now available to income eligible households and/or households that use Con Ed gas to help pay for: insulation, air sealing, adjusting heating and hot water systems and other costs. For more information: www.getenergysmart.org/SingleFamilyHomes/ExistingBuilding/HomeOwner.aspxexternal link icon

  • EmPower New YorkSM offers no-cost energy services to income-qualified households.

    EmPower is available to individual tenants; it may also be combined with the Weatherization Assistance Program for multifamily building renovations. Services may include: replacement of old, inefficient appliances; installation of high-efficiency lighting and tips on how to save energy. Con Ed Gas customers are also eligible for insulation, heating system upgrades, air sealing and conversions from electric to gas clothes dryers and water heaters. As an individual household, you are eligible if you: meet the income guidelines (receipt of HEAP, Public Assistance, SSI or Food Stamp recipient automatically determines income eligibility) and you live in a building with 100 living units or less. For more information and to apply, call Honeywell International at 1-800-263-0960.

  • NYSERDA and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation team up to encourage CFL bulb recycling.

    In order to promote the use of energy- saving compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs and to provide residents with a convenient outlet for spent lamps, you can establish a CFL Collection Center. For more information call: 1-877-NYSTAR1 or email: [Sorry, display of this email address requires a Javascript-aware browser, in order to deter spam. Please use the general contact page instead.].

Last updated: December 2008