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Outsized Emissions in Medium-Sized Buildings
January 22, 2020 | Adam Schiabor
The city’s latest benchmarking data set provides the first-ever look at medium buildings’ energy use and emissions, and reveals that medium multifamily properties are more energy and carbon intensive than larger ones.
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Greening the Grid: Bringing Canadian Renewables to NYC Recap
November 12, 2019 | Sage Lincoln, Aidan Thornbury
On October 23, Urban Green brought together leading experts at the Canadian Consulate to assess the state of low carbon energy in New York and explore how the proposed Champlain Hudson Power Express project could help building owners comply with NYC’s building emissions law.
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Are you a Quitter or a Retrofitter?
June 26, 2019 | Rebecca Elzinga
New York City’s newly passed Local Law 97, the most ambitious climate legislation for buildings enacted by any city in the world, is poised to redefine the retrofit market.
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$20B Building Energy Retrofit Market
June 19, 2019 | John Mandyck
We found that if all building owners choose retrofits to comply with the new law, a new $20B retrofit market will be required over the course of the next decade; that’s 13 times larger than today’s annual market.
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From Blueprint to Bill
December 5, 2018 | Urban Green Council
It was standing-room only for the hearing on a landmark retrofit bill introduced last week by Council Member Costa Constantinides. The bill, Intro. 1253, proposes new carbon emissions caps and energy performance requirements for the city’s large buildings starting in 2022.

News / LL97

Outsized Emissions in Medium-Sized Buildings

Greening the Grid: Bringing Canadian Renewables to NYC Recap

Are you a Quitter or a Retrofitter?

$20B Building Energy Retrofit Market

From Blueprint to Bill