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Cool Tech
This battery offers New York City apartments a cleaner way to stay cool
Every Electric’s new power bank helps defray the peak demand on the city’s energy grid through efficient energy storage
Cool Tech
Submetering for savings at Queensview
Behind the metering strategy that shifts the onus for electricity use onto the individual — making users more aware of their own waste
Efficiency
How Casa Pasiva recycled infrastructure for a breath of fresh air
Behind this Bushwick development’s novel ERV solution for its a passive house retrofit
Cool Tech
A heat pump that slots into the façade and is pack(aged) with benefits
More retrofit projects are shifting toward the use of packaged terminal heat pumps, or PTHP units, as an energy- and cost-efficient way to upgrade a property’s heating system
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Steam heat systems learning new tricks
A legacy boiler company is pioneering boiler replacement with a steam-generating heat pump powerful enough to heat New York’s biggest apartment buildings
Cool Tech
What is a “Radiator Cozy” and how does it work?
Inwood Park Apartments was able to save money on fuel and reduce carbon emissions — all by insulating their in-unit radiators
Efficiency
How do you replace 400 windows? One step at a time.
Behind the scenes in one co-op’s planning process for a major façade upgrade
Cool Tech
How do window-unit heat pumps work?
Behind the new heat pumps that are helping to decarbonize NYCHA’s Woodside housing
Clean Energy
All-electrics aren’t all created equal
What’s right for your building — heat pumps, or electric resistance heaters?
Efficiency
Real Time Energy Management (RTEM) tech offers real savings opportunities
Meet the NYSERDA-backed tech that saved Sherman Terrace more than $53,000 on energy in one year
Cool Tech
Controlling for comfort — and for cost
New air-source heat pumps offer residents an increased level of control, but also shift who’s paying for the heat
Clean Energy
How this Brooklyn condo ensures its solar panels work at max efficiency
Once solar panels are installed, engineers utilize energy “clipping” to ensure peak performance, even on the cloudiest days
Efficiency
Hybrid heating, modern solutions
Ecosystem engineers utilize both heat pumps and a gas boiler to heat Manhattan co-op
Clean Energy
Simple installations and a financial ‘no-brainer’
Solar panels on the roof of Forest Hills rental carve a pathway toward clean energy via net metering
Efficiency
Betting on a better Building Management System
An automated program to monitor building systems helps Manhattan co-op inch toward Local Law 97 compliance
Clean Energy