Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration says it has made progress on
its OneNYC plan, the policy document that sets a course for the city's
efforts on environmental and climate change resiliency — from solar
at City Hall to a new tool to control buildings' energy use.
"This morning, the Mayor announced that of the nearly 3,000 public buildings with any significant energy use, almost one-third already have retrofits in place or underway," Nilda Mesa, head of the mayor's Office of Sustainability, told a joint hearing of the City Council Committees on Recovery and Resiliency and Environmental Protection on Monday. "The City has installed nearly four megawatts of solar on its buildings in the last year alone, bringing the total to nearly five megawatts."
The public buildings already getting retrofits account for roughly half the greenhouse-gas emissions from city-owned buildings, and City Hall itself is installing a solar installation and a fuel-cell generator, she said.
The city has also issued requests for proposals for another
15 megawatts of solar — including 66 schools, Bellevue Hospital, Hostos
Community College, the Bronx Hall of Justice, the Queens Museum and the
Abe Stark Ice Rink, among others.
Already, private buildings have doubled their solar installations since the end of 2013, going from 25 megawatts of solar to 54 megawatts currently across 3,500 installations, Mesa testified.
The administration also announced a new program to measure and control energy use in large buildings — the New York City Energy and Water Performance Map, a tool created in partnership with NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress that lets building owners and managers analyze water and energy consumption.
"We're greening every public building, with retrofits now in buildings
representing half of all public building emissions," de Blasio said in a
statement. "Our progress is clear, but we won't stop leading by
example — and providing the tools for the private sector to do the same —
because our very future is at stake."
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"This morning, the Mayor announced that of the nearly 3,000 public buildings with any significant energy use, almost one-third already have retrofits in place or underway," Nilda Mesa, head of the mayor's Office of Sustainability, told a joint hearing of the City Council Committees on Recovery and Resiliency and Environmental Protection on Monday. "The City has installed nearly four megawatts of solar on its buildings in the last year alone, bringing the total to nearly five megawatts."
The public buildings already getting retrofits account for roughly half the greenhouse-gas emissions from city-owned buildings, and City Hall itself is installing a solar installation and a fuel-cell generator, she said.
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| NYC With Energy Conversation Tactics Taking Hold |
Already, private buildings have doubled their solar installations since the end of 2013, going from 25 megawatts of solar to 54 megawatts currently across 3,500 installations, Mesa testified.
The administration also announced a new program to measure and control energy use in large buildings — the New York City Energy and Water Performance Map, a tool created in partnership with NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress that lets building owners and managers analyze water and energy consumption.
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| NYC Without Energy Conversation Tactics Taking Hold |
#OneNYCPlan #Environmental #BuildingsEnergy #retrofits #solarinstallations #controlenergyuse #Environmentalmeasures #buildingemissions --- Let #GuardianServiceIndustries by your soultion! #GuardianSince1918
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