Carbon Neutral Community Economic Development Program

REDC Region: Long Island
Company: United Way of Long Island
Category: A
Description: Existing office building, removing fossil fuel HVAC equipment, and installing ASHPs and solar. 
Funding Awarded: $595,000.00
Total Project Cost: $850,000.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE: CN & NZE
Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps, Roof Mounted Solar, Building Efficiency Improvements

REDC Region: Central New York
Company: Wood B Ayr Farm
Category: A
Description: Dairy Farm. New construction of bedding pack barn, ed center and milk house, with GSHP and solar. 
Funding Awarded: $1,000,000.00
Total Project Cost: $2,590,000.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction
CN/NZE: CN & NZE
Measures: Translucent Fabric Barn Structure, Ground Source Heat Pumps, Electric Wheel Loader. Robotic Feeding, Milking & Cleaning System, Ground Mounted Solar 

REDC Region: Mid Hudson
Company: City Winery of Hudson Valley
Category: A
Description: Historic rehabilitation of existing buildings into a winery, café and event center, with heat pumps and hydro electric.
Funding Awarded: $805,756.00
Total Project Cost: $7,320,000.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion:  Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE:  NZE
Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps - VRF, Improved Envelope, LED Lighting, All-Electric Wine Production Equipment, Existing Hydro Electric Power Plant

REDC Region: Capital Region
Company: Basilica Industries LLC
Category: A
Description: Basilica Industries will renovate an existing event facility to improve the efficiency of the building, converting to an all-electric heating system, domestic hot water system and commercial kitchen, keeping the property in-use year-round. The project will also install two new solar arrays with storage, to offset all electric loads of the facility to achieve net zero energy performance. The project is located in Hudson, NY, a Downtown Revitalization Initiative district in the Mid-Hudson Region.
Funding Awarded: $950,139.00
Total Project Cost: $1,357,342.00
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion:  Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE:  CN and NZE
Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps, Heat Pump Hot Water Heaters. Commercial Induction Stoves. Improved Envelope, Ground Mounted Solar – 100 KW, Electric, Vehicle Charging Stations, Battery Storage

REDC Region: Capital Region
Company: University at Albany
Category: A
Description: Basilica Industries will renovate an existing event facility to improve the efficiency of the building, converting to an all-electric heating system, domestic hot water system and commercial kitchen, keeping the property in-use year-round. The project will also install two new solar arrays with storage, to offset all electric loads of the facility to achieve net zero energy performance. The project is located in Hudson, NY, a Downtown Revitalization Initiative district in the Mid-Hudson Region.
Funding Awarded: $2,000,000.00
Total Project Cost: $2,670,000.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: Campus Roadmap 
CN/NZE: CN 
Measures: Assess Building-level Energy Reduction Strategies, Study Electrification options for Central Loop, Develop Roadmap to Campus Decarbonization

REDC Region: Central New York
Company: Salina 1st LLC
Category: A
Description: Salina 1st, LLC proposes to acquire, develop and operate a mixed-use project with manufacturing, retail, office and residential space to net zero energy performance. The project site provides urban infill development on a mitigated brownfield in downtown Syracuse and is located within an opportunity zone on a major commercial thoroughfare.
Funding Awarded: $1,000,000.00
Total Project Cost: $2,047,582.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction 
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps, Improved Envelope, Roof Mounted Solar

REDC Region: Mid Hudson
Company: Pelham RE Partners LLC
Category: A
Description: The Project team will construct a new net zero energy five-story mixed-use development, consisting of apartments and commercial retail space. The project utilizes advanced construction techniques and will include solar, electric vehicle charging stations, and smart building controls. This project is located in a natural gas restricted area.
Funding Awarded: $943,072.00
Total Project Cost: $11,676,112.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction 
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps – VRF, Heat Pump Hot Water Heaters, Insulated Concrete Forms – Envelope, Roof Mounted Solar, Electric Vehicle Charging Stations, Battery Storage

REDC Region: Mohawk Valley
Company: City of Rome
Category: A
Description: The City of Rome will implement improvements to the existing anaerobic digestion system at the City's Water Pollution Control Facility. The project also includes the construction of a new high strength organic waste receiving and equalization tank, which will provide revenue through increased tipping fees for waste disposal. Additionally, a new Combined Heat and Power system will be implemented for increased energy recovery and production from the produced bio-gas.
Funding Awarded: $1,000,000.00
Total Project Cost: $14,700,000.00
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion: Expansion 
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: High Strength Organic Waste Digesters Combines Heat and Power system High Strength, Organic Waste Receiving Facility, High Strength Organic Waste Digesters, Combines Heat and Power system, High Strength Organic Waste Receiving Facility

REDC Region: New York City
Company: New York University
Category: A
Description: New York University will perform a study of contiguous University owned properties to determine a Roadmap to Carbon Neutral Performance for the Campus.  The study will evaluate strategies to reduce energy loads, leverage heat recovery, identify sticking points for high intensity process loads and limited roof areas, transform existing high temperature hot water loop infrastructure, reimagine the central water heating plant and layer in renewables.
Funding Awarded: $2,000,000.00
Total Project Cost: $2,670,000.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: Campus Roadmap 
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Assess Building-level Energy Reduction Strategies, Study Electrification options for Central Loop, Develop Roadmap to Campus Decarbonization

REDC Region: Southern Tier
Company: Ithaca Children's Garden
Category: A
Description: Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc. (VINES) proposes to build a straw-bale green commercial office building. The project includes passive solar and integrated design principles, to achieve a highly energy efficient building with roof-top solar. This office and storage facility will support VINES urban farm, making it possible for local growers to access low/moderate income consumers and providing workforce development in agriculture.
Funding Awarded: $358,950.00
Total Project Cost: $8,020,292.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps, Passive House Envelope, Energy Recovery Ventilation, LED Lighting, Roof Mounted Solar, Battery, Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

REDC Region: Western New York 
Company: University at Buffalo
Category: A
Description: The University at Buffalo proposes to construct a facility that will house and charge the University's Connected and Automated Vehicle fleet. The proposed project includes electric vehicle charging stations, solar, wind and battery storage.
Funding Awarded: $500,000.00
Total Project Cost: $1,450,000.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Heat Pumps, Energy Recovery Ventilation, Ground Mounted Solar, Wind. Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

REDC Region: New York City
Company: Columbia University
Category: B
Description: Columbia University will initiate a plan to achieve the strategic electrification of its facilities and meet the university’s sustainability and decarbonization goals. The proposed work will develop a Strategic Electrification Master Plan, a detailed, actionable, and flexible roadmap for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The study will examine 65 buildings on the university's Morningside Campus as well as the central steam and chilled water plants which serve these buildings.
Funding Awarded: $1,506,575.00
Total Project Cost: $2,008,767.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction
CN/NZE: CN
Measures: Assess Building-level Energy Reduction Strategies, Study Electrification options for Central Loop, Develop Roadmap to Campus Decarbonization

REDC Region: Finger Lakes
Company: Solar Home Factory
Category: A
Description: Solar Village Company, LLC will construct a carbon neutral manufacturing facility in Geneva, New York, called the Solar Home Factory, which will produce modular, net-zero, solar powered multifamily homes. The Solar Home Factory will be a net zero energy performance facility powered by a rooftop solar array. The project is unique in that both the facility operation and the product it produces will be net zero energy and sustainable.
Funding Awarded: $1,975,000.00
Total Project Cost: $21,626,454.00
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: High Performance Building Envelope, Air Source Heat Pumps, LED & Natural Lighting, Roof Mounted Solar, Battery Storage, Electric Vehicle Charging

REDC Region: Western New York 
Company: People United for Sustainable Housing
Category: A
Description: PUSH Buffalo will build the Sustainability Workforce Training Center (SWTC) on Buffalo’s west side, creating a new green economy workforce to support the transition to carbon neutrality by mid-century. The SWTC will be a net-zero facility with classrooms, offices, and meeting space that demonstrate sustainable technologies and construction methods, catalyzing PUSH Buffalo’s established workforce development program in the rapidly growing clean energy and green construction trades. This will be the region’s first green jobs training facility with flexibility to expand as the field develops.
Funding Awarded: $137,817.00
Total Project Cost: $1,300,168.00
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Ground Source Heat Pumps, Enhanced Building Envelope, Energy Recovery Ventilation, Heat Pump Hot Water Heater, Roof Mounted Solar

REDC Region: Central New York
Company: Main Street Farms LLC
Category: A
Description: The Main Street Farms project located in Cortland, New York will add storage capacity as well as allow for all washing and storage of produce to be housed at the same location. The finished carbon neutral project will include coolers, workspace for washing and packing orders, and installation of a solar array.
Funding Awarded: $410,590.00
Total Project Cost: $623,735.00
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion: Expansion
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps, Improved Envelope, Tankless Electric Hot Water Heaters, Efficiency Controls for Refrigeration, LED Lighting, Roof Mounted Solar, Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

REDC Region: Capital Region
Company: 335 Main Street LLC
Category: A
Description: The Main Street Farms project located in Cortland, New York will add storage capacity as well as allow for all washing and storage of produce to be housed at the same location. The finished carbon neutral project will include coolers, workspace for washing and packing orders, and installation of a solar array.
Funding Awarded: $1,914,059.00
Total Project Cost: $2,552,079.00
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion: Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE: CN
Measures: Insulation & Air Sealing, Air Source Heat Pumps - VRF, Heat Pump Water Heaters, Ground Mounted Solar, Electric Vehicle Charging, All-electric Commercial Kitchen

REDC Region: New York City
Company: New York University
Category: A
Description: New York University will renovate Rubin Hall, a dormitory with almost 700 residents in lower Manhattan to achieve carbon neutral performance. This project seeks to achieve full electrification and LEED retrofit Passive House (EnerPHit) certification. The project is a highly replicable building type (pre-war, multifamily/dormitory) and the knowledge gained will inform the retrofit of billions of square feet of buildings statewide.
Funding Awarded: $2,000,000.00
Total Project Cost: $3,264,500.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE: CN
Measures: Passive House Envelope. Air Source Heat Pumps, Triple Pane Windows, Heat Recovery Ventilation, Heat Pump Water Heaters

REDC Region: Western New York 
Company: Enterprise Lumber Silo LLC
Category: A
Description: This Enterprise Lumber & Silo Redevelopment Project will restore and repurpose a vacant masonry and heavy timber-framed building in the City of North Tonawanda, New York to achieve carbon neutral performance. The building will serve as an incubator for entrepreneurial architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering firms.  When completed, the new building and the site will serve as a catalyst for further redevelopment of the downtown, and as a model for carbon neutral construction methods.
Funding Awarded: $300,000.00
Total Project Cost: $2,714,000.00
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion: Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Ground Source Heat Pumps, Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), Energy Recovery Ventilation, LED Lighting, Roof Mounted Solar

REDC Region: Capital Region
Company: South Front Street Holdings LLC
Category: A
Description: Located in Hudson's previously awarded Downtown Revitalization Initiative Bridge District, the historic post + beam Red Barn building will be an anchor for waterfront revitalization. The Red Barn project includes work to seal the thermal envelope and install energy-efficient, all-electric systems and equipment for heating, cooling, hot water, and ventilation (including for a commercial catering kitchen) and will use all energy from solar arrays. The project is in a disadvantaged community, and a Downtown Revitalization Initiative award district.
Funding Awarded: $601,234.00
Total Project Cost: $2,004,900.00
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion: Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), Air Source Heat Pumps - VRF, Heat Pump Water Heaters, Heat Recovery Ventilation, Ground Mounted Solar, Electric Vehicle Charging

REDC Region: Mid Hudson
Company: The Plant Powerhouse LLC
Category: A
Description: The former Glenwood Power Plant will be re-envisioned as a center for leadership, activism, and education on climate change. Redevelopment of The Plant Powerhouse building on the site will include advanced geothermal systems, and other elements designed to make The Powerhouse entirely carbon neutral. The historic preservation of this long-abandoned power plant will also create exhibition space with hotel, restaurants, and cultural programming space and will help educate the public on carbon neutral technology and performance.
Funding Awarded: $2,000,000.00
Total Project Cost: $22,866,000.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE: CN
Measures: Ground Source Heat Pumps, Heat Sequestration Solar Thermal, Water Cooled Refrigeration, Earth Ducts, Ice Storage, All-Electric Kitchen, Planned Photovoltaics

REDC Region: Capital Region
Company: The Olana Partnership Inc
Category: A
Description: The Frederic Church Center (FCC) is a sustainably designed, carbon neutral visitor center for the Olana State Historic Site. The FCC will be the threshold to an immersive visitor experience of Olana as a unique, world-class carbon neutral tourist destination at the intersection of American art and environmental consciousness.
Funding Awarded: $1,868,776.00
Total Project Cost: $11,500,694.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Mass Timber Construction, Highly Efficient Envelope, Air Source Heat Pumps, On Demand Electric Hot Water, LED Lighting, Photovoltaics

REDC Region: Finger Lakes
Company: Timber Trails Forest Farm
Category: A
Description: Timber Trails Forest Farm in Canandaigua, New York, will expand operations and build New York’s first 100 percent electric, carbon neutral maple syrup operation. The building design utilizes passive house construction, will be well insulated, and is heated with all-electric geothermal radiant heating. The facility will be a leading example for maple syrup production in the agricultural community, lower emissions within the industry, and educate the public through agri-tourism.
Funding Awarded: $166,928.00 
Total Project Cost: $340,326.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction
CN/NZE: CN
Measures: Ground Source Heat Pumps, Passive House Envelope (existing), Production Equipment: Auto Reverse Osmosis, Eco Vap Electric Evaporator, Final Brix Controller, Roof Mounted Solar – 75 KW, Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

REDC Region: New York City
Company: 1500 Waters Place Realty LLC
Category: A
Description: Tower 3 will be the first of a seven-building planned expansion of the Hutchinson Metro Center campus in the Morris Park section of the Bronx. Tower 3 will be a 14-story, all-electric carbon neutral high-rise building consisting of rentable office space and a garage, that will implement construction and operation strategies to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.
Funding Awarded: $ 2,000,000.00 
Total Project Cost: $135,136,120
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion: New Construction
CN/NZE: CN
"Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps - VRF, Energy Recovery Ventilation, Building Thermal Zones, Improved Envelope, LED Lighting, WaterSense Fixtures, Ground Mounted Solar

REDC Region: Capital Region
Company: City of Cohoes
Category: A
Description: The City of Cohoes will improve the historic Cohoes City Hall's energy performance through the electrification of the building’s heating ventilation and air conditioning systems and improving the building’s envelope to achieve carbon neutral performance.
Funding Awarded: $1,050,000.00 
Total Project Cost: $8,500,000 
DAC: Yes
NC/AR/Expansion: Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE: CN
Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps (VRF), Window Refurbishment and Replacement, Building Management System

REDC Region: Bethel Town Hall Renovation and Modernization
Company: Town of Bethel
Category: A
Description: The Bethel Town Hall, will be renovated and expanded to meet the town's needs, and will pursue Passive House Institute U.S. certification and carbon neutral performance. This will include the addition of renewable energy and battery storage to eliminate the need for a back-up generator and to help reduce peak energy demand. The town has a unique opportunity to create awareness of its carbon neutral town hall among the visitors to the original Woodstock Festival site as a model that can be emulated by other communities.
Funding Awarded: $149,186.00
Total Project Cost:  $198,195.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion:  Adaptive Reuse
CN/NZE: CN
Measures: Prefabricated Insulated Panels, Air Source Heat Pumps, Heat Pump Hot Water, Energy Recovery Ventilation, Lighting & Controls, Battery Storage, Roof Mounted Solar, Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

REDC Region: Mid Hudson
Company: Storm King Art Center
Category: A
Description: As a leader in the field of art in nature, Storm King launched Art that Moves You Outside. The capital project is part of a larger master plan and includes two buildings: the Welcome Sequence and the Conservation, Fabrication, and Maintenance Building. These buildings will be built to achieve carbon neutral performance and will have an immediate impact on the visitor experience.
Funding Awarded: $600,000.00 
Total Project Cost:  $31,240,000.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion:  New Construction
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Air Source Heat Pumps, Passive Design Strategies, Energy Recovery Ventilation, Enhanced Building Envelope, Roof Mounted Solar, Battery Storage, Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

REDC Region: Mid Hudson
Company: RTH Realty Holdings LLC.
Category: A
Description: Highland Passive House, located in Ulster County-Hudson Valley, will be the first certified passive warehouse in North America and will achieve carbon neutral and net zero energy status. Easily replicated, the new building will be constructed from prefabricated panels, and will include a public charging location for electric vehicles. The mixed-use building will include warehouse space and flexible office space that will also be used as a tv/film/production space.
Funding Awarded: $ 1,303,157.00 
Total Project Cost:  $4,331,002.00
DAC: No
NC/AR/Expansion:  New Construction
CN/NZE: CN and NZE
Measures: Pre-fabricated Passive Panels, Passive House Plus Certification, Air Source Heat Pumps, Roof Mounted Solar, Battery Storage, Electric Vehicle Charging Stations