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 funding opportunities from the End-Use Energy Innovation program are often focused on accelerating commercialization of innovative buildings solutions through product development and demonstrations to enable electrification and decarbonization of buildings.
NextGen Buildings Innovation Challenge
This program supported the advancement of innovative building technologies for clean heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, thermal storage, building envelopes, and intelligent building systems in New York State. Program Opportunity Notice (PON) 3519 awarded $23 million in funding to 24 projects via a competitive process in the most recent rounds. Funding shown is for the total award amount. Funding is contracted in stages for each project.
Round 7 Awardees
Shallow Depth Ground Source Heat Pump Systems
Innovation - Product Development
Innovia Geo will develop and demonstrate an innovative shallow depth GEOColumn ground-heat exchange having a lower installed cost.
- Funding Amount: $1,292,395
Home Electrification: Low-Power Solutions (HELPS)
Innovation - Demonstration
TRC will lead a demonstration of a residential load control technology via a smart electric panel, saving energy in 100 homes in upstate New York.
- Funding Amount: $1,442,271
Genesys- Closed Loop Advection Device (CLAD)
Innovation - Product Development
Genesys US LLC will develop and demonstrate a closed loop geothermal advection device expected to cost less while maintaining the same performance as a traditional geothermal closed-loop system.
- Funding Amount: $421,720
Digital Tools and Robotics for Enhanced Envelope Retrofits
Innovation - Product Development
GTI Energy will develop and commercialize a robotic and digital tools-assisted retrofit method that can be broadly applied to exterior wall retrofits, reducing the installation cost of building envelope retrofits.
- Funding Amount: $1,134,877
Multifamily Housing Energy Storage Induction Range
Innovation - Product Development
Channing Street Copper will develop and demonstrate a 24 inch induction stove with an integrated battery system that is charged from a standard 120 volt power outlet avoiding the need for a electric service upgrade.
- Funding Amount: $1,548,890
Occupant-centric Data-driven Controls for Multiple Energy Assets
Innovation - Technology Feasibility/Assessment
Syracuse University will develop and demonstrate an occupant-centric data-driven controls for multiple energy assets in commercial buildings.
- Funding Amount: $1,250,619
Interactive Products to Assist with Geothermal Drilling
Innovation - Product Development
USGS will develop an interactive web mapping application to provide drillers, engineers, regulators, and policy makers with the tools to increase their understanding of subsurface conditions in New York State.
- Funding Amount: $248,020
Energy Orchestration for Window Heat Pumps in Multifamily Buildings
Innovation - Product Development
Treau will develop and demonstrate a cloud based building energy management system for a fleet of cold climate window heat pumps.
- Funding Amount: $1,346,626
Hemp Wall Insulation Solutions for Energy Retrofits
Innovation - Product Development
Home Innovation Research Labs will develop and demonstrate the use of hemp as a low cost insulation product.
- Funding Amount: $1,129,260
Nano-porous material based HVAC + thermal storage integrated solution
Innovation - Demonstration
Enesion Inc will develop and demonstrate an integrated nano-porous material based solution that offsets cooling peak loads in the summer and steam usage in winter.
- Funding Amount: $510,180
Geothermal Package for HVAC Contractors
Innovation - Product Development
Energy Catalyst Technologies will demo a combination of newer technologies, software tools, process optimization, and vertical integration approach to lowering the cost of installing a geothermal energy system.
- Funding Amount: $1,341,200
Equitable Grid Interactive Homes (E-GIH)
Innovation - Product Development
Ecolong LLC will develop and demo a residential energy management system that controls loads within the building to reduce energy consumption, increase load flexibility and enable building - grid interactivity.
- Funding Amount: $945,850
Multi-Family Split-Hybrid Cost Compression
Innovation - Product Development
Energy Catalyst will develop and demonstrate a new type of heat pump that can convert multi-family, commercial and single family buildings to geothermal at a fraction of the current cost.
- Funding Amount: $967,669
OpenBOS - Phase 2
Innovation - Product Development
TRC will develop and demonstrate a collection of innovative, cost-effective and market-ready control solutions utilizing open-source OpenBOS reference software.
- Funding Amount: $1,528,728
Integrated Panel with HVAC and Vacuum Insulated Glazing
Innovation - Product Development
Wythe Partners will develop and demonstrate a new panelized overcladding system incorporating vacuum insulated glazing and HVAC technologies in a single product.
- Funding Amount: $1,949,243
Affordable Residential Electrification for Enhancing Load Flexibility and Addressing Panel Capacity Challenges
Innovation - Demonstration
NeoCharge Inc. will demonstrate the ability of homes in New York to safely connect high-load devices like EV chargers, heat pumps, and electric water heaters without costly rewiring or panel upgrades.
- Funding Amount: $725,001
Round 8 Awardees
Scalable Smart Energy Autopilot for Light Commercial Buildings
Innovation - Product Development
75F will develop and demonstrate an AI-empowered smart building energy management system, with 30 planned installations in NYS.
- Funding Amount: $350,000
Grid-Integrated Commercial Heat Pump Water Heating Systems
Innovation - Product Development
Steven Winter Associates, Inc will demonstration of a simple, cost-effective controls technology for demand management and load shifting of Commercial Heat Pump Water Heaters.
- Funding Amount: $349,320
Thermal Energy Storage Integration with Package Terminal Heat Pumps
Innovation - Product Development
Ice Aire based in Mt Veron, NY will develop and manufacture a thermal-storage integrated Packaged Terminal Heat Pump that will improve PTHP efficiency, tackle grid congestion and capacity constraints.
- Funding Amount: $350,000
Integrated Energy Supervisory Control Platform for Multi-family Buildings
Innovation - Product Development
Franunhofer USA will develop and demonstrate using Embue’s existing Building Intelligence (BI) platform to create a supervisory control platform that optimizes control of major multifamily building electric loads.
- Funding Amount: $853,380
Scaled Demand Flexibility with Virtual Service Limit
Innovation - Product Development
TRC will demonstrate the capabilities of SPAN's Virtual Service Limit (VSL) to enable single family and multifamily home electrification and grid flexibility.
- Funding Amount: $499,734
Smart Thermal Batteries for Air Source Heat Pumps
Innovation - Product Development
GTI Energy shall incorporate a thermal battery, into a residential heat pump installation to shift heating and domestic hot water (DHW) loads in residential building applications.
- Funding Amount: $1,275,000
Geothermal Storage for Multifamily Affordable Housing
Innovation - Demonstration
Brightcore Energy, LLC will demonstrate their EDGE intelligent controls and thermal storage integrated with a geothermal system at up to 4 multifamily affordable housing sites in New York.
- Funding Amount: $1,200,000
Awardees are helping to accelerate the development and commercialization of technology solutions that can be scaled in new and existing residential, multifamily, or commercial buildings to improve energy efficiency, lower operating costs, reduce energy demand to improve grid resiliency, and to save consumers energy.
Enabling Innovative Clean Energy Building Solutions Funding Opportunity
The approximately 8 million buildings in NYS are responsible for 52% of the State’s total energy consumption, and 32% of the State’s greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing emissions from these buildings is key.
To tackle emissions from buildings, NYSERDA’s End Use Energy Innovation program released the Enabling Innovative Clean Energy Building Solutions funding opportunity to help develop energy-efficient building technologies and new business models for New York’s buildings.
How It Works
NYSERDA requested proposals for, and anticipates making five $1 million awards under this solicitation, to support the advancement of solutions in these five Topic Areas:
- Building Envelope
- Clean Heating and Cooling
- Intelligent Grid-interactive Building Controls
- Low-GWP Refrigerant Applications and Leak Detection
- Thermal Storage
Who Can Apply
Anyone could apply to the Enabling Innovative Clean Energy Building Solutions funding opportunity. NYSERDA was seeking demonstration projects of near commercial-ready solutions at a committed New York State site that have received government or foundation funding that advanced and readied the solution for demonstration.
How to Apply
The application period has ended.
Contact
Program Team
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Read about Advanced Buildings as a focus area for Innovation & Research.