Mar
20
Today NYC Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway, NYCDEP Commissioner Carter Strickland and NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky announced the release of a Request for Proposals to design, construct, install and operate solar and wind power facilities at Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Approximately 75 acres of land are available for lease and have the potential to be developed into large-scale facilities that could generate up to 20 megawatts of renewable energy—enough to power roughly 6,000 homes. The project would more than double the City’s current renewable energy capacity. Fostering the market for renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions are two initiatives of PlaNYC, Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability blueprint for New York City.  Deputy Mayor Holloway: “New York City needs energy to keep it running, and we want that power to be reliable, clean, and affordable. This RFP does all of those things and, if successful, will more than double the renewable energy capacity in the City. Renewable energy is the most sustainable kind, and under Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership we’re maximizing the use of City assets to develop as much capacity as possible.” Fresh Kills spans 2,200 acres on the western shore of Staten Island and served as the City’s principal solid waste landfill until 2001. In 2006, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation began work to develop Freshkills Park, which will incorporate the solar and wind power installations outlined in the Request for Proposals. For more details, view the Request for Proposals. Responses are due on a rolling basis to be reviewed at each submission deadline: May 24, 2012, August 15, 2012, November 15, 2012, and a final submission date of February 15, 2013. Learn more about NYCEDC projects on Staten Island and to boost the green economy.

Today NYC Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway, NYCDEP Commissioner Carter Strickland and NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky announced the release of a Request for Proposals to design, construct, install and operate solar and wind power facilities at Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Approximately 75 acres of land are available for lease and have the potential to be developed into large-scale facilities that could generate up to 20 megawatts of renewable energy—enough to power roughly 6,000 homes. The project would more than double the City’s current renewable energy capacity. Fostering the market for renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions are two initiatives of PlaNYC, Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability blueprint for New York City. 

Deputy Mayor Holloway:

“New York City needs energy to keep it running, and we want that power to be reliable, clean, and affordable. This RFP does all of those things and, if successful, will more than double the renewable energy capacity in the City. Renewable energy is the most sustainable kind, and under Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership we’re maximizing the use of City assets to develop as much capacity as possible.”

Fresh Kills spans 2,200 acres on the western shore of Staten Island and served as the City’s principal solid waste landfill until 2001. In 2006, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation began work to develop Freshkills Park, which will incorporate the solar and wind power installations outlined in the Request for Proposals.

For more details, view the Request for Proposals. Responses are due on a rolling basis to be reviewed at each submission deadline: May 24, 2012, August 15, 2012, November 15, 2012, and a final submission date of February 15, 2013.

Learn more about NYCEDC projects on Staten Island and to boost the green economy.

Mar
19
Welcome to NYC Clean Heat Tumblr, run out of NYC Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability! nyccleanheat: What is Clean Heat? In April 2011, Mayor Bloomberg announced regulations that establish deadlines for phasing out the use of “heavy” heating oil in New York City buildings. The two forms of heavy oil, No. 6 and No.4 oil, are used in only 1% of the city’s buildings. However, these buildings emit more soot pollution than all of the City’s cars and trucks combined. Full compliance with these regulations is expected to save 1,500 lives over the next two decades. The goal of NYC Clean Heat is to rapidly accelerate the transition to the cleanest fuels so we can realize these health benefits much sooner. — Welcome to NYC Clean Heat. Keep an eye on this blog for updates on the program, photos, information and more!

Welcome to NYC Clean Heat Tumblr, run out of NYC Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability!

nyccleanheat:

What is Clean Heat?

In April 2011, Mayor Bloomberg announced regulations that establish deadlines for phasing out the use of “heavy” heating oil in New York City buildings. The two forms of heavy oil, No. 6 and No.4 oil, are used in only 1% of the city’s buildings. However, these buildings emit more soot pollution than all of the City’s cars and trucks combined. Full compliance with these regulations is expected to save 1,500 lives over the next two decades.

The goal of NYC Clean Heat is to rapidly accelerate the transition to the cleanest fuels so we can realize these health benefits much sooner.

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Welcome to NYC Clean Heat.

Keep an eye on this blog for updates on the program, photos, information and more!

Source: nyccleanheat

Jan
18

Hacking Green Data

Go green with the Cleanweb Hackathon this weekend, where developers will hack together apps using energy and environmental data. The event kicks off Friday night with an icebreaker at the New York Academy of the Sciences, continues Saturday with an all-day, all-night hackathon at NYU ITP, and concludes Sunday with demos and an awards presentation.

The list of judges includes Fred Wilson, Principal of Union Square Ventures; Rachel Sterne, NYC Chief Digital Officer; Frank Rimalovski, Managing Director, NYU Innovation Venture Fund; Evan Korth, Co-founder of HackNY; Mike Shimazu, Innovation and Business Development at NYSERDA; and Maria Gotsch, President and CEO at the New York City Investment Fund. Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer, will also join as a special guest.

Register today for the Cleanweb Hackathon and explore the APIs and datasets available.

Dec
28

nycdigital:

Watch NYCEDC’s video on how Brooklynite and Green-Eco evangelist Anselm Doering founded and took EcoLogic Solutions from his apartment, to the Varick St incubator, to the Brooklyn Navy Yards as a thriving business. Discover how Anselm made it here in New York City.

Source: nycdigital