The Funding and Incentives Resource Hub can help you navigate and discover the many rebates, funding opportunities, and other incentives including those available through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This new hub will continue to evolve as we add resources as they become available*, so be sure to check back frequently. You can refine your search by sector, technology, source, and type using the filters below.
Building Typology: Affordable multifamily
New engineering design means and methods are needed to enable and accelerate adoption of low-carbon retrofit technologies. Efficient heating and cooling energy systems are widely available but underused due to lack of knowledge and thermal system interaction.
Decarbonization requires adapting distribution systems designed for legacy thermal supply to electric and renewable thermal energy systems. New design strategies are emerging which can help alleviate space constraint issues, provide peak thermal capacity, optimize operational efficiencies, utilize waste heat, and reduce the need for oversized, electrified thermal energy systems creating retrofit cost compression. The latest research on thermal energy networks focuses on utilizing heat and cold more sustainably by creating innovative components and control strategies for thermal systems.
In this Empire Building Challenge webinar, Cary Smith and Garen Ewbank from The GreyEdge Group provide perspectives on designing efficient thermal networks for decarbonization. The recorded discussion focuses on low temperature distribution, electrification with advanced heat pumps, thermal storage integration, and thermal interactive buildings.
The materials below were part of a presentation given on Jun 18, 2020, as part of the Empire Building Challenge, in partnership with the GreyEdge Group.
Source: via NYSERDA
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These case studies cover projects that will dramatically reduce carbon emissions with deep energy retrofits for affordable multifamily housing in the Boston area. Deep energy retrofits dramatically reduce carbon emissions. These renovations transform affordable housing to be highly energy efficient, all-electric, powered by clean renewable energy, and renovated with materials low in embodied carbon. These projects are part of the Advanced Building Construction Collaborative’s demand aggregation. This work aims to demonstrate streamlined deep energy retrofits and retrofits using advanced building construction techniques to accelerate the adoption of this work in the market.
Source: Advanced Building Construction Collaborative
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- Affordable multifamily
- Air Source Heat Pump
- Ambient Temperature Loop
- Appliance Electrification
- Central Gas Boiler
- Condenser Heat Recovery
- Distributed Gas Fired Systems
- District Steam
- Domestic Hot Water
- Electrical Resistance Baseboards
- Energy Recovery Ventilation
- Envelope Improvements
- Gas Fired Domestic Hot Water Boilers
- Gas Fired Roof Top Units
- Ground Source Heat Pump
- Hydronic Distribution System
- Mixed income multifamily
- Solar PV
- Steam Distribution System
- Submetering Upgrades
- Thermal Energy Network
- Thermal Storage
- Variable Air Volume
- Ventilation Improvements
- Wastewater Heat Recovery
- Water Source Heat Pump
The Empire Technology Prize team has produced the New York State Market Insight and Characterization report, which explores the technical challenges posed by achieving efficient decarbonization of heating systems and explores alternatives in two focus areas: high temperature heat pumps, and minimally disruptive distribution system solutions.
Source: The Clean Fight
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- Affordable multifamily
- Air Source Heat Pump
- Condenser Heat Recovery
- Domestic Hot Water
- Electrical Resistance Baseboards
- Envelope Improvements
- Gas Fired Domestic Hot Water Boilers
- Ground Source Heat Pump
- Hydronic Distribution System
- Mixed income multifamily
- Multi-use building
- Office
- Retail
- Steam Distribution System
- Ventilation Improvements
- Wastewater Heat Recovery
RMI, in partnership with industry leaders, developed green leasing guidelines that offer benefits to landlords and tenants alike. As net zero energy buildings have increased in popularity, green leasing resources developed by RMI and its partners are driving sustainability in a largely untapped market: leased commercial buildings. Over half of commercial buildings nationally are leased, presenting an opportunity to save energy and costs, and create healthier, more productive workplaces.
Source: RMI
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DSIRE is the nation’s most comprehensive information sources for renewable and efficiency incentives. The database enables users to pinpoint opportunities in a variety of formats including dynamic maps, charts, and tables. To help you find opportunities, the database includes a search tool that filters incentives and policies by type, state, technology, implementing sector, and eligible sector.The site was established by the Department of Energy 20 years ago. The database is operated by the N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center at North Carolina State University.
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