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NYSERDA has several programs that help you lower your home or business’s energy bills, reduce your environmental impact, and/or support clean energy and transportation in New York State.
76West
Attracts entrepreneurs and resources from around the globe to build clean energy businesses and create jobs in the 8 counties that make up New York State's Southern Tier Region.
Advanced Buildings Program
Develops energy-efficient, building-related technology, including next-generation HVAC and smart building technologies, and business models for residential, multifamily, and commercial buildings.
Agriculture Energy Audit Program
Provides assistance to eligible farms and on-farm producers to identify electric and natural gas energy efficiency measures including but not limited to orchards, dairies, greenhouses, vegetables, vineyards, grain dryers, and poultry or egg producers.
Assisted Home Performance with ENERGY STAR®
Offers income-qualified homeowners in New York State a comprehensive, whole-house approach to improving energy efficiency and home comfort while saving money.
Building Energy Code Development, Compliance, and Enforcement
NYSERDA provides training and support services to code enforcement officials, design professionals, energy professionals and the construction trades to improve compliance with and enforcement of the Energy Code. In addition, NYSERDA supports energy code advancement by encouraging the voluntary local adoption of a more stringent “stretch” energy code.
Buildings of Excellence
Buildings of Excellence recognizes eligible architects and developers whose projects simulate the design, construction, and operation of very low or zero carbon emitting buildings.
Build-Ready Program
Advances large-scale renewable energy projects by identifying sites that are consistent with the State’s permitting standards and are made build-ready for private renewable energy developers to construct and operate projects at these sites.
Business Energy Pro
Provides compensation to service providers, over a period of time, for measured energy efficiency accruing from a large portfolio of homes and businesses that undergo energy efficiency upgrades and operational improvements.
Carbon Neutral Buildings
The Carbon Neutral Buildings Roadmap is intended to help chart the course New York must take to make all homes and buildings carbon neutral by 2050.
Carbon Neutral Community Economic Development
Supports the planning, design, and installation of economic development projects to operate at net zero energy or net zero carbon performance at the facility-level or community-level.
Charge NY
Drive Clean Rebate for Electric Cars - Open to New York State residents, Charge NY’s Drive Clean Rebate offers a point-of-sale rebate of up to $2,000 towards the purchase or lease of a new plug-in electric car. Includes charging station information for residents, businesses, work places and multifamily buildings.
Clean Energy Communities
Recognizes and rewards village, town, city, and county governments in New York State for implementing clean energy actions to save taxpayer dollars, create jobs, and improve the environment.
Clean Energy Siting for Local Governments
Assists local governments with siting clean energy projects in their jurisdictions by working with them to implement best practices.
Clean Energy Standard
Aims to fight climate change, reduce harmful air pollution and ensure a diverse and reliable low carbon energy supply by requiring that 70 percent of New York's electricity come from renewable energy sources by 2030.
Clean Energy Workforce Development
Supports a broad range of renewable energy and energy efficiency education and training programs for new and existing staff, aimed at creating an experienced workforce to support New York State’s growing clean energy economy.
Clean Heating and Cooling Communities Campaign
Support for communities to increase customer awareness of CH&C technologies, reduce installed costs, and jump-start the market by implementing multi-year campaigns consisting of community-based outreach and education focused on CH&C.
Clean Transportation Program
Supports the development, demonstration, and deployment of innovative transportation technologies and strategies that increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act)
In 2019, New York passed the nation-leading Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) to empower every New Yorker to fight climate change at home, at work, and in their communities.
Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Carbon Challenge
Supports capital investments by large energy customers to reduce carbon through energy efficiency, distributed energy, and other clean energy actions.
Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing Guidelines
Offers guidance to municipalities adopting Commercial PACE financing.
Community Energy Engagement Program
Offers locally based energy awareness and education for residents, small businesses, and multifamily building owners, with a focus on low-to-moderate-income households and communities. Community Energy Advisers will help community members of all income levels lower their energy costs and increase deployment of distributed energy resources by increasing the amount and diversity of funding and financing being invested in clean energy projects.
Community Heat Pump Systems
Supports the development and demonstration of low-carbon Community Thermal Systems installations in new construction and existing building retrofits.
Contractor Delivery Channel - Become a Contractor
Find out if your company can qualify and benefit from delivering NYSERDA programs. NYSERDA works with various partners and contractors to offer solutions that can help reduce energy usage and costs for residents, businesses, institutions, and municipal and nonprofit organizations in New York State. Participation requirements vary by program.
Drive Clean Rebate for Electric Cars
Offers a point-of-sale rebate of up to $2,000 towards the purchase or lease of a new plug-in electric car.
Empire Building Challenge
Supports replicable and scalable retrofit approaches to achieving low carbon in existing tall buildings. The Empire Building Challenge (EBC) is a public-private partnership between NYSERDA and leading commercial and multifamily real estate portfolio owners, developers, and occupants.
EmPower New York
Offers no-cost energy efficiency services such as insulation, air sealing, energy efficient light bulbs, and replacement of an inefficient refrigerator and freezer to low-income (such as HEAP-eligible) homeowners and renters.
Energy Audit Programs
A residential energy audit is a review of a home’s energy performance, including an assessment of both the home’s energy features and the household’s energy consumption patterns. Home energy audits identify how efficiently your home is operating and where your home is wasting energy.
Energy Best Practices for Agriculture
Energy Best Practices for Agriculture – provides tools and resources to farms across New York State to help them make informed energy decisions
Energy Efficiency for Commercial Tenants
Supports energy efficiency in commercial tenant spaces in New York State. Tenants and landlords can work with consultants to identify energy saving opportunities at any point of the lease lifecycle: from space selection and goal setting, to design and construction, occupancy and operations.
Energy Storage
Offers funding and technical support to building owners, municipalities, energy storage developers, contractors, and integrators for installing energy storage technologies.
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Program
Guides early-stage companies through specific projects and issues, such as staffing for growth, budget management, resource planning, strategic partnering and board management. Entrepreneurs-in-Residence are seasoned executives that share experience, skills and acquired knowledge with early-stage companies.
Environmental Research Program
Supports monitoring and assessment of environmental conditions, informs policy, and fosters technological innovation related to energy use and production.
Flexible Technical Assistance (FlexTech) Program
Offers cost-shared technical services to help businesses operating in New York State make smart energy decisions. A dedicated team of engineers, technology experts, and energy consultants works with customers to create a customized assessment that identifies specific opportunities for reducing energy consumption and costs.
Green Jobs - Green New York Energy Studies
Offers subsidized energy studies to eligible small businesses and not-for-profits to help identify opportunities to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy costs.
Healthcare Energy Support
Offers no-cost technical assistance for healthcare facilities to develop a comprehensive, long-term energy management approach.
Heat Pump Program (NYS Clean Heat)
Heat pumps are a more efficient heating and cooling option that eliminate fossil fuels, can provide up to 100 percent of your heating and cooling needs, and help you save on your energy bills.
Home Energy Efficiency Programs
Aims to help New York State residents reduce energy waste and lower their energy bills. No cost energy audits and financing options are available. Incentives are available to income-eligible households through Assisted Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® which provides a comprehensive, whole-house approach to improving energy efficiency and home comfort while saving money. EmPower New York provides free energy efficiency upgrades at no-cost to income eligible households.
Home Energy Savings Program
The Home Energy Savings Program, a pay for performance initiative, is an innovative collaboration between the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), New York utilities, energy efficiency service providers, and other supporting partners designed to transform investments in energy efficiency
Improve Your Home’s Comfort with Seal and Insulate Packages
This pilot program available in select markets helps homeowners save money and improve a home’s comfort year-round with “seal and insulate” packages. This program makes it easy to make smart investments for a more efficient home now and more affordable clean heating options in the future.
Innovative Market Strategies
Provides funding for emerging clean energy solutions in the areas of energy efficiency, distributed energy resources, and affordability and equity to bring clean energy adoption to scale in New York State.
Integrated Energy Data Resource
The Integrated Energy Data Resource will be one statewide data platform that will securely collect, integrate, and provide useful access to a large and diverse set of energy-related information. NYSERDA is leading the development of the IEDR with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement to ensure interested parties will be able to access and analyze the elements of the State’s energy system and customer information that are most useful to them.
Just Transition Site Reuse Planning
Supports activities associated with site reuse planning to ensure a just transition away from the state’s conventional energy infrastructure.
Low-Carbon Capital Planning Support for Multifamily Buildings
Provides cost-share incentives for an energy study of your multifamily buildings or portfolio of buildings focused on electrification or electrification-readiness upgrades.
Low-Carbon Pathways for Multifamily Buildings
Provides funding to implement a low carbon energy-saving retrofit for multifamily buildings through incentive packages focused on four major building energy systems: Envelope, Ventilation, Heating and Cooling, and Domestic Hot Water.
Low-Income Forum on Energy (LIFE)
Brings together organizations and individuals committed to addressing the challenges and opportunities facing low-income New Yorkers as they seek safe, affordable, and reliable energy.
Multifamily Building Programs
Learn about incentives and technical assistance available to owners and managers of existing multifamily buildings.
Multifamily Financing
Explore affordable and flexible financing opportunities through NYSERDA and partner organizations to help make cost-effective energy improvements to multifamily buildings.
New Construction – Commercial
The New Construction - Commercial Program (NC-Commercial) supports the design, development and construction of carbon neutral buildings, reducing their energy consumption and per capita carbon emissions while ensuring the buildings are more resilient. NC-Commercial offers technical and financial support to Applicants and their design teams to identify and install energy efficiency, electrification, and carbon reduction opportunities to achieve Carbon Neutral Ready levels of performance in non-residential and mixed-use new construction, adaptive reuse, change of use, and substantial renovations to existing buildings. Carbon Neutral Portfolio Support is also offered through this funding opportunity.
New Construction - Housing
Supports new construction or gut-rehab of existing spaces to provide residents with energy savings and comfort. Support is available to participating builders who construct single-family homes or multi-unit residential projects that meet the New York ENERGY STAR® Certified Homes standard, including homes designed to achieve net-zero energy performance. Income-qualified homebuyers may be eligible for additional support.
New York Clean Transportation Prizes
Electrifying transportation, reducing air pollution, and enhancing clean mobility in disadvantaged communities across New York State while advancing efforts to achieve the State's clean energy and climate goals.
New York Generation Attribute Tracking System (NYGATS)
Records information about electricity generated, imported, and consumed within New York State. It can also issue, track, and manage energy attribute certificates and renewable energy credits (RECs).
New York State Strategic Fuel Reserve
Allows prequalified fuel distributors to access gasoline and diesel reserves and provide these fuels to emergency responders and other entities during a declared State energy emergency.
New York Truck Voucher Incentive Program
Accelerates the market acceptance of advanced vehicle technologies in the commercial truck and bus sectors.
NY Green Bank
NY Green Bank is a state-sponsored, specialized financial entity working in partnership with the private sector to increase investments into New York’s clean energy markets, creating a more efficient, reliable and sustainable energy system.
NY Prize
Helps communities create microgrids - standalone energy systems that can operate independently in the event of a power outage - through a first-in-the-nation competition.
NYSERDA Commercial Programs
Programs to help companies from any sector increase efficiency and improve their bottom lines.
NYSERDA Industrial Programs
Programs help facilities in any sector increase efficiency to help meet their bottom lines.
NYSERDA Programs for Income-eligible Residents and Property Owners
Programs to help income-eligible New Yorkers and rental property owners save money and energy.
Offshore Wind
Supports offshore wind (OSW) energy as a major source of affordable, renewable power for New York State, especially for the New York City metropolitan area and Long Island. NYSERDA is the lead agency coordinating the offshore wind opportunities in the State.
On-site Energy Manager Program
Educates industrial and commercial companies about the value of an on-site energy manager to drive energy, process, and operational improvements in their business.
P 12 Clean Green Schools Initiative
Helps public schools that traditionally lack resources to invest in infrastructure improvements become healthier, more productive learning environments.
P-12 Schools Initiative
Provides resources and programs to help P-12 schools lower energy use and utility bills while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
P-12 Schools: Green and Clean Energy Solutions
Provides cost-sharing and direct incentives to help reduce energy loads and assist in the conversion to carbon free fuels. Available to publicly or privately-owned pre-kindergarten through 12th grade schools.
Real Time Energy Management (RTEM) Program
Supports real time energy management (RTEM) system and service providers who help eligible facilities in New York State with selecting appropriate RTEM systems and offers cost-sharing incentives for installing the systems. Assistance includes an in-depth analysis of energy usage data at the site and suggestions for capital improvements.
Regional Clean Energy Hub
Develops energy-efficient, building-related technology, including next-generation HVAC and smart building technologies, and business models for residential, multifamily, and commercial buildings.
Residential Financing Options
Residential Financing offers loan options to help finance energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements to NY State homeowners.
RetrofitNY
Working to create new solutions to renovate multifamily buildings while achieving or approaching net-zero energy use and creating standardized and scalable processes that will improve residents’ comfort and buildings’ energy performance.
REV Campus Challenge
Recognizes and supports colleges and universities in New York State that implement clean energy projects and principles on campus, in the classroom, and in surrounding communities.
REV Connect
REV Connect brings companies and utilities together to accelerate innovation toward achieving nation leading climate goals.
Scale for ClimateTech
Helps startups overcome obstacles to manufacturing cleantech products in New York State.
Small Business Financing
Works with lenders statewide to provide eligible small businesses and not-for-profit organizations with access to low-interest energy efficiency project financing.
Smart Grid Program
Supports the modernization of New York State’s electric grid through innovative technology and distributed energy resources.
Solar Program (NY-Sun)
Provides incentives and financing to make solar-generated electricity accessible and affordable for all New York homeowners, renters, and businesses. Using solar can help lower energy costs compared to using conventionally generated electricity. Additional program components include training for installers and public officials, standardized permitting processes, and consumer education.
Strategic Energy Management Program
Offers training to industrial facilities that are interested in optimizing energy use through a continuous improvement approach. SEM focuses on changing business practices to enable companies to reduce energy consumption and waste.
SUNY Concierge
Offers exclusive assistance to SUNY institutions to navigate and implement available energy programs and services.