On February 6, 2014, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) launched The Energy Efficiency Innovation Collaborative (EE-INC), a public-private collective of energy industry leaders working to improve energy efficiency in New York State buildings and accelerate economic growth in burgeoning technologies and statewide businesses. NYPA President and Chief Executive Officer Gil Quiniones anticipates that expanding energy efficiency offerings to New York State businesses will ultimately lead to the creation of additional jobs.
Through a Request for Information (RFI), the EE-INC is seeking unprecedented commercial energy efficiency technologies to be funded by NYPA, which has plans to finance more than $800 million in energy efficiency projects over the next several years in support of Governor Cuomo’s Build Smart NY program. The deadline in the RFI process is scheduled for March 25, 2014.
Other members of the collaborative include the New York State Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE), the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). NYPA will also work with New York’s Empire State Development agency to visit EE-INC with Start-Up NY.
For more information on EE-INC and the RFI process, please visit www.eeinc-ny.com.
