Project Traits
State: New York
Congressional District: NY14
Organization Type: Commercial
Partner Organization(s) Type: None or Unknown
Energy Sector: Buildings
Energy Subsector: Residential, Energy Efficiency
Project Start Year: 2026
Project Launch Year: 2027
Government Support Received: State Grant [Empire Building Challenge] for Unknown Amount
Outcomes & Impacts
Private Investment: Unknown
Jobs Announced or Created: Unknown
People Served: Unknown
Projected Economic Impact: Unknown
Lessons Learned: The Resource Efficient Decarbonization (RED) methodology helped generate various technical and financial scenarios for the project, ultimately allowing selection of the optimal pathway.
The goals of the retrofit project are to: Connect the commercial and residential heating, cooling, and domestic hot water thermal energy zones together to enable hydronic-based thermal heat recovery; Replace existing residential and commercial terminal units to enable low-temperature hydronic heating and improve, or maintain, cooling services; Recover energy for, and electrify, loads currently served by fossil fuels (heating and domestic hot water); Reduce construction costs by avoiding the staggering of measure implementationwherever possible; and Minimize negative impacts on operating costs while making substantial carbon emissions reductions.
The project creates a unique thermal connection between previously disparate spaces within the building. Residential spaces will be thermally connected to non-residential service spaces including a commercial kitchen and office to facilitate energy recovery.