NYSERDA’s Building O&M Training Program provides funding for organizations to design and deliver custom, hands-on training for their maintenance and facilities teams. The program is designed to help organizations save energy and money, improve the performance of existing equipment, and transition to advanced building systems. Organizations can connect with a training partner of their choice to develop a unique training program tailored to their organization's needs – with little or no out-of-pocket costs.

Who Is Eligible

Building owners, facility managers, property management companies, training providers, business associations, trade groups, and organized labor associations are eligible to apply for funding. In cases where a training provider, a business association/trade group, or an organized labor association is the applicant, it must partner with a specified entity or entities that employ building O&M workers. Applications must be for training activities connected with specific buildings, building portfolios, or campuses of buildings, including partnerships of businesses with common training needs and skills gaps.

Strategic Energy Management (SEM) Program

NYSERDA is offering two fully funded program opportunities for businesses to transform their energy management. Participants will be guided by a professional coach to develop a SEM plan that will increase profitability, help attain environmental goals, and achieve greater resiliency.

From this training, participants will learn to:

• collect, measure, and track energy use information to help inform strategic business decisions.
• continuously measure and improve energy performance.
• empower and motivate workforces to contribute to energy strategy and goals.

Heat Recovery Program

NYSERDA is working to energize the NYS marketplace for heat recovery solutions. Buildings, which represent around one-third of NY’s greenhouse gas emissions, waste heat (i.e., thermal energy) through a variety of processes, including ventilation, cooling, and wastewater systems. By capturing and repurposing that rejected energy, heat recovery solutions help building owners reduce operating costs and lower carbon emissions.

To increase awareness and adoption of heat recovery solutions, the Heat Recovery Program aims to advance solutions that can significantly improve thermal efficiency and support planning activities to accelerate a pipeline of successful heat recovery retrofits.

Heat recovery recycles wasted thermal energy, reducing a building’s energy consumption and carbon footprint. Recovering wasted heat – energy that building owners have already paid for – and repurposing it directly at point of use or storing it for later represents a promising approach to large building decarbonization.

Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Carbon Challenge Program

Based on market feedback, NYSERDA designed the C&I Carbon Challenge to give large, non-residential energy users resources to unlock deep decarbonization opportunities, either directly or through preferred solutions providers. The C&I Carbon Challenge helps companies and organizations implement carbon-reduction projects through a competitive proposal process. Challenge winners will work one on one with a dedicated NYSERDA resource on all proposed projects rather than navigating multiple NYSERDA or utility initiatives.

Large-Scale Thermal Program

Funding opportunities are available to help decarbonize your existing or new buildings, including large single buildings or multiple buildings such as educational or medical campuses, multifamily complexes, communities, and other collocated buildings using heat pumps and thermal sources like the ground (geothermal), wastewater, waste heat recovery from industrial processes, and thermal energy storage to provide heating, cooling, and hot water.

Clean Transportation Program

NYSERDA’s Clean Transportation Program provides incentives, funding opportunities, and technical assistance to advance several low-carbon modes of transportation, including public transit; biking; walking; and light-, medium-, and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), such as battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The transition to ZEVs is underway, supported by increasing vehicle choice and public charging infrastructure availability. Converting to ZEVs is not just good for the environment – it also reduces the total cost of vehicle ownership through lower fuel and vehicle maintenance costs.

NY-Sun Program

NYS is making solar energy more accessible to homes, businesses, and communities through NY-Sun incentives and a network of qualified installers. Combined with declining equipment costs, NYS tax credits, and Inflation Reduction Act tax credits, there has never been a better time to go solar.

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Every commercial facility in NYS is eligible to participate in the above programs. The workshop PowerPoint presentation, which includes a link to each program with in-depth information regarding each and how to apply, is available here. 

Contact: Amy Nelson, anelson@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8383 ext. 146