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Electrify NY! Panel November 19, 2:30pm (free online registration)

Join us for a panel presentation of opportunities for NYers to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions through efficiency and electrification!

 

Electrify New York (efficiency & electrification opportunities)

See also the Nov 20 companion hands-on Energy Expo: Featuring fossil-fuel-free equipment, tools, tech, & management strategies

 

 

PANEL: Electrify New York (efficiency & electrification opportunities)

Efficiency+Electrification = Improved Air Quality + Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions + Conserved NYS Natural Resources

In 2019, New York State passed ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigating legislation. Most of NYS’s greenhouse gas emissions come from combusting fossil fuels for heating, cooling, and transportation used in our personal and professional lives. Anything we can do in our local communities to reduce this fossil combustion improves our air quality, reduces GHG, and reduces the demand on rural landscapes to support renewable energy projects. Come join a panel of Extension, Community Organizers, NYS Office of Climate, and Technical Service Providers as we discuss opportunities that mobilize energy efficiency and electrification projects in our local communities to conserve our shared natural resources.

Panelists:

  • Overview: Integrating Multiple NYS Goals to Conserve our Finite Landbase –Jenifer Wightman, Cornell University
  • Farm Energy Efficiencies: Accessing Technical Support & Grants -Gabriel Gurley, CCE-Tompkins
  • Electrify Landscaping Equipment: Save Money, Energy, & Heath -Ken Estes, CCE-Livingston
  • Weatherize Homes: Save Energy, Reduce GHG, Protect Health -Josh Randall, CCE-Niagara
  • Efficiency Pilots: Life Changing Impact for Low Income Homeowners: Join a Manufactured Housing working group to help build policy in NYS -Danielle Eiseman, Dept of Public and Ecosystem Health, Cornell University
  • pending, Steven Winter Associates, Multi-family building retrofit playbook
  • NYS Cap and Invest (NYCI) Program (zooming in) -Maureen Leddy, Office of Climate Change

 

Did You Know

Most of our Greenhouse Gas emissions come from fueling our buildings and transportation?

    • These emissions can be reduced dramatically by efficiency and electrification while improving equity and well-being for all.

 

 

Did You Know

In 2019, NYS passed unprecedented legislation: Reduce GHG emissions 85% by 2050?

 

 

This panel is part of the larger 3-day Cornell Cooperative Extension conference: Agriculture, Food & Environmental Systems In-Service (Nov 19-21, 2024)

DEFINITIONS:

  • Decarbonization: reducing or eliminating carbon (fossil fuel) emissions from a sector (transportation, buildings, and power).
  • Electrification: replacing technologies that run on fossil fuels with alternatives that run efficiently on electricity. It also means generating all that electricity from clean energy rather than fossil fuels.
  • Weatherization: home improvements that reduce energy use and make homes more comfortable (moisture control, air sealing, ventilation, and upgrades to insulation, doors and windows).

Conservation Easement Programs for Rural Landowners, Webinar, Dec 5

Join us on Thursday, December 5th from 7:00 to 8:00 pm to learn about conservation tools such as easements and potential funding opportunities available to rural landowners in New York. Land Conservation Specialist Kate Riley from the Finger Lakes Land Trust (www.fllt.org) will cover the options available to landowners to protect and preserve the legacy they have created for their land. Bring your questions. To join the free webinar, register ahead at: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N7wjZI90QTK5N7DTYBzMjQ Organized by the Southern Finger Lakes Chapter of the NY Forest Owners Association (www.nyfoa.org) and the Cornell Cooperative Extension SCNY Ag Team. Contact Brett Chedzoy at bjc226@cornell.edu with questions.

Brett Chedzoy
Sr. Resource Educator – Ag and Natural Resources
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County
South Central NY Agricultural Team
office: 607-535-7161 – cell: 607-742-3657
bjc226@cornell.edu
www.forestconnect.info

Replace AC with heat pump – NYS incentives for electrification

Heat pumps cool efficiently (and heat efficiently).

Next time you need to change out your AC, consider installing a heat pump!

Replacing central ACs with heat pumps in New York State’s single-family homes

Original publication by Urban Green Council • October 30, 2024

Replacing central air conditioners (ACs) with heat pumps is a sleeper electrification opportunity for many New York State homes.

About 45 percent of the state’s 5.3 million single-family homes have a central AC distributing cold air through ducts. When an AC fails in those homes, replacing it with a new central heat pump will deliver both cooling and heating through the same ductwork. That new heat pump provides more efficient cooling and can also displace oil, propane or gas used for heating—a win for homeowners and the climate alike.

This “cool switch”—replacing an AC with a cold-climate central heat pump—can be straightforward and strategic. California and Colorado are already pursuing policies to drive central-AC-to-heat-pump swaps. Around 120,000 central ACs capable of cooling single-family homes are sold each year in New York State. Every new AC installed is a missed chance to decarbonize, locking in outdated equipment for 15 years or more. The benefits and barriers in New York State depend on a range of factors, like the climate, the condition of the home, the size of the heat pump and more. But if every New York homeowner replaced their central AC with a heat pump, electrifying winter heating could cut on-site residential sector emissions by up to 30 percent annually.

New York’s Scoping Plan outlines ambitious steps to cut building sector emissions through electrification. The state’s vision to quadruple heat pump sales and achieve two million climate-friendly homes by 2030 is a call to action. In this report, we examine the opportunity, retrofit considerations and costs associated with AC-to-heat-pump swaps. We also detail the policy steps needed to advance this electrification pathway in New York homes so that as all central ACs age or fail, they are replaced with cold-climate heat pumps.

More here

Cool Switch