The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announces the availability of up to $8 million for Round 8 of PON 3519 to support the development and demonstration of innovative technologies in the following two Innovation Challenge Areas:
- Challenge Area 1: Intelligent Buildings
- Challenge Area 2: Thermal Storage
The innovation challenges are focused on improving the performance and value propositions of innovations for New York’s buildings. These challenges identify attributes that drive innovation and challenge industry to develop systems that deliver on those attributes, help establish credibility of new companies and products through engagement and involvement of influential buildings sector stakeholders, and drive market entry through identification and leveraging of existing channels to market for products and services.
NYSERDA is seeking concept papers focusing on:
- Intelligent Buildings – Solutions for residential and commercial buildings that connect and optimize across legacy and siloed energy systems to reduce the building’s peak electricity demand, utility costs, emissions, and impact on the grid while maintaining building operations and occupants’ desired comfort.
- Thermal Storage – Solutions for residential and commercial buildings that integrate thermal storage with HVAC equipment to improve the overall HVAC system efficiency, enable participation in community thermal networks, reduce overall heating peak loads, and provide resiliency to building occupants.
Projects selected for funding must
- Show potential to reduce GHG emissions from the building sector in New York State.
- Demonstrate benefits to electric System Benefits Charge (SBC) ratepayers (https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/About/Funding), regardless of the initial Technology Stage.
- Address an opportunity to increase the energy efficiency and/or advance the energy performance of new and/or existing buildings in the residential, multi-family, commercial, or institutional sector.
- Provide direct and quantifiable energy, environmental, and economic benefits to NYS (including benefits to low- to moderate-income and disadvantaged communities), such as energy savings, demand response, emissions reductions, job creation, product manufacturing and sales, and/or reduced energy costs.
- Satisfy the Concept Paper requirements and, if selected, Full Proposal requirements and sufficiently address the evaluation criteria (see Sections IV and V).
- Complete all necessary attachments, including the Concept Paper Template (Attachment B) and, if selected, the Proposal Narrative (Attachment A), Statement of Work (Attachment A1), TRL/CRL Calculator (Attachment A2) and Budget Form (Attachment C).
- Agree to pay recoupment to NYSERDA for commercial sales or licensing revenues of new technologies, services, or products developed with NYSERDA funding (see Section VI).
- Agree to Annual Metrics Reporting terms (see Section VI) and General Conditions (see Section VII).
- Development activities should describe their commercialization strategy and include other commercialization activities; basic research is ineligible.
- Demonstration projects must take place within New York State and include a letter of support from the site owner(s)/decision maker(s).
- Provide a letter of support and commitment from all funding sources.
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