Advanced Buildings Program
Buildings require a lot of energy to heat or cool spaces, circulate air, and operate lighting. Currently, about 80 percent of buildings across the State were constructed before energy codes emerged in the 1970s and utilize the burning of fossil fuels for space heating and hot water. Laboratories, startups, and established companies are working on innovative business models and technology to enable building electrification, lowering buildings’ emissions and energy use, or intelligent energy management but they need help getting their innovations to market.
The current funding opportunity from the Advanced Buildings program is focused on accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative buildings solutions to enable electrification and decarbonization of buildings.
NextGen Buildings Funding Opportunity
The approximately 8 million buildings in NYS are responsible for 60% of the State’s energy consumption, and 32% of the State’s greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing emissions from these buildings will help New York reach its aggressive Climate Act 
goals.
To tackle emissions from buildings, NYSERDA’s Advanced Buildings program had released the Next Generation Buildings Innovation Challenges funding opportunity to help develop energy-efficient building technologies and new business models for New York’s buildings.
How It Works
A total of $18 million was made available for Round 7 of the NextGen Building Innovation Challenges to encourage private investment and to advance the next generation of innovative building technologies.
NYSERDA requested proposals focused on:
- Building Envelope Systems and Components
- Ground Source Heat Pump Cost Compression
- Intelligent Buildings, and
- Thermal storage solutions for HVAC applications
Who Was Asked To Apply
Anyone could apply to the NextGen Buildings Innovation Challenges funding opportunity. NYSERDA encouraged university researchers, entrepreneurs, startups and established companies seeking support to advance new or improved technologies and business models in buildings as well as forward-thinking building owners to apply.
How to Apply
The application and instructions for submitting a proposal were available on the NextGen Buildings Innovation Challenges funding opportunity page .
Deadline
Proposals were due by September 27, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. EST
Contact
Joseph Borowiec
[email protected]
518-862-1090 x3381
Read about Advanced Buildings as a focus area for Innovation@NYSERDA.