Gov. Kathy Hochul announced more than $23 million has been awarded to 24 projects through the NextGen Buildings Innovation Challenges program. The initiative aims to advance innovative building technologies for clean heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, thermal storage, building envelopes and intelligent building systems in New York State. To date, nearly $49 million has been awarded to 51 projects to address technology gaps that are barriers to advancing building decarbonization across the state through the program. These projects will accelerate the adoption of technologies that can be scaled in new and existing buildings to improve efficiency, reduce energy demand and lower operating costs, helping to make buildings more affordable for owners and occupants.
Through the program, which is administered by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, each project was awarded funding to develop, commercialize and demonstrate a new product or solution that offers building owners affordable, efficient and clean energy options that help better control energy use. Five of the projects selected benefit low-to-moderate-income housing or are located in disadvantaged communities.
The projects awarded are focused on building envelope improvements, cost compression of ground source heat pump systems, enabling intelligent grid interactive buildings, thermal storage and intelligent grid interactive building solutions.
Key highlights include:
- Solutions that improve the insulation and air sealing of the exterior walls of existing buildings.
- Occupant-centric data-driven controls for multiple energy assets in commercial buildings to maximize reduction of peak energy load and ensure occupant comfort.
- Solutions that reduce the cost of drilling the boreholes associated with geothermal energy systems.
- Induction stoves with integrated batteries at a multifamily building.
- The utilization of thermal storage to improve heat pump heating and cooling performance.
- Control technology for demand management and load shifting of energy and grid interactivity.
For a full list of projects that received funding visit NYSERDA’s website.
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