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Large commercial and residential buildings must overcome various hurdles before implementing deep retrofits or capital projects that help achieve building decarbonization.



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Access to Occupied Spaces.


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Lease Concerns.


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Regulatory Limitations - Rent Stabilized Apartments

  1. The building owner is required to provide free heat and hot water.
  2. No mechanism to recover investment in new systems is necessary to achieve decarbonization.
  3. Buildings are capital constrained


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Split Incentives (tenants pays for energy).




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High temperature renewable resources are limited and face hurdles:

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  • Deep Bore Geothermal
  • Renewable Hydrogen
  • Carbon Capture and Sequestration


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  • Biomethane
  • Electric Boilers
  • High-temperature thermal storage


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  • Hight-temperature industrial heat pumps
  • Waste Heat Capture and Reuse
  • Fission





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Utility Capacity Limitations:

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Building Electric Capacity Upgrades

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  • Capacity competition with other electrification needs:
    • Space Heat and Cooling
    • DHW
    • Cooking
    • Pumps and Motors


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  • Electric Riser Capacity
  • Switchgear Expansion
  • New Service/Vault Expansion/Point-of-Entry Space Constraints



Local Network Electric Capacity Upgrades

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  • Excess Distribution Facility Charges (EDF)
  • Contributions in Aid of Construction (CIAC)

Gas Utility Earnings Adjustment Mechanisms (EAM) focused on SystemPeak Demand Reductions

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  • Partial Electrification concepts achieve deep decarbonization but do notnecessarily achieve peak gas demand reductions (debateable)

Total Connected Loads and Peak Demand drive need for capacityupgrades; demand reduction strategies do not obviate capacity limitationsunless the utility accepts the solution as a permanent demand/loadreduction strategy.

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  • Battery Storage: 
    • Fire Danger
    • Space Constraints
    • Electri Distribution Limitations
    • Structural Loads


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  • Building Automation/BMS/Demand Response:
    • Cost
    • Integration Limitations; blackbox software
    • Microgrid Development
      1. Cost
      2. Lack of Expertise


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  • On-site Generation: 
    • Space Constraints
    • Gas Use; zero carbon fuels availability is non-existent
    • Structural Loads
    • Pipe Infrastructure



Thermal Storage

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  • Space Constrains
  • Structural Loads
  • Technology Limitations: 
    • Vacuum insulated storage tanks
    • Phase change material (DHW, space heating)



Geothermal (ambient temperature), Deep Bore Geothermal (hightemperature) or Shared Loop District Energy Systems provide cooling andheating with lower peak demand than standard electric equipment

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  • Building pipe riser limitations; need additional riser capacity:
    • Building water loops are typically “top down” - cooling capacity istypically located at rooftop mechanical penthouses; cooling towersat roof.
      1. Some exceptions to this rule
    • Space Constraints


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  • Drilling Difficulty:
    • Outdoor Space Constraints for Geothermal Wells
    • Difficult permitting
    • Mud and cuttings disposal
      1. Contaminated soil disposal
    • Overhead Clearance Constraints for Drilling in Basements/Garages 


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  • Shared Loop/Thermal Utility Limitations: 
    • Requires entity that may operate in public ROWs and acrossproperty lines
    • Utilities are limited by regulations for gas, steam or electric deliveryvs. shared loop media (ambient temperature water).
      1. Only utility entities can provide very long amortization periods
      2. Utilities are best suited to work amid crowded undergroundmunicipal ROWs.


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  • Deep Bore Geothermal Limitations:
    •  Requires test drilling and geological assessment
    • Seismic Risk
    • Drilling equipment is very large - more akin to oil and gasdevelopment equipment
    • Subsurface land rights and DEC restrictions



Other Energy Efficiency/Conservation Measures with proven/attractiveeconomics (these measures are limited by lack of capital or knowledge)

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  • Lighting with Lighting Controls
  • High-efficiency electrically commutated motors (ECM)
  • Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) on pumps and motors
  • Retrocommissioning Tasks and Maintenance

Behavioral Modification

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  • Staggered Work Scheduling
  • Telework

  • Submetering and Billing: potentially creates split incentive betweenlandlord and tenant: 

    • Water
    • Electric
      1. Onerous regulatory compliance
    • Heat and Cooling
      1. Rent stabilized builidings prohibit biling for heat





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Work must be completed at the end of facade/window useful life; very long usefullife


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Building Code


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Glazing Reduction at odds with aesthetic/marketability concerns


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Difficult installing with occupied spaces


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Reduce Local Law 11 recurring cost via overcladding

  • Aesthetic Concerns
  • At odds with historic preservation
  • Capital intensive
  • Lot Line Limitations


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  • Vacuum insulated panels

  • Aerogel panels/batts

  • Zero-GWP blowing agents for closed cell spray foam (nitrogen blowingagent needs to be more widely adopted)

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Technology Limitations

  • Need higher R-value/inch for thinner wall assemblie: 

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Energy Recovery Ventilation (ERV)

  • Space Constraints
  • System Tie-in point accessibility/feasibility


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Rooftop Supply Air (Reznor) Unit Alternatives

  • Heat Pump Alternatives to eliminate resistance heat
  • Combine with ERV


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HVAC Load Reduction (HLR) Technology

  • Vent or Capture Exhaust Gases
  • Space Constraints
  • System Tie-in point accessibility/feasibility


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Central vs. Decentralized Ventilation Systems


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  • Competition for Leasable Space
  • Space Constraints
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Direct Outside Air System (DOAS)

  • Modular Perimeter Ducted Air Heat Pumps: 

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Ventilation Points-of-Entry

  • Aesthetic Concerns
  • Lot Line Facades/Building Setbacks
  • Competition with Leasable Space
  • Space Constraints




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Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF)

  • Fire and Life Safety concerns over volume of refrigerant gas located withinoccupied spaces.


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Regulatory Risk from new refrigerant policies


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PTAC and VTAC


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Ducted Supply/Exhaust Air Source Heat Pumps


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  • Limited domestic production

  • Performance not confirmed by independent third-parties

  • More demonstration projects needed
  • Decentralized DHW Systems
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    Domestic Hot Water

    • Central DHW Systems: 

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    More open source interconnection between devices/interoperability is needed toachieve energy distribution flexibility and capacity expansion:

    • air source that has a manifold connection to interconnect with water source orrefrigerant gas distribution
    • interconnectivity/simplified heat exchange between refrigerants/water/air, etc.
    • Other optionality and add-ons




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    titleCrossover Device or “Magic Box”Technology


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    multi-purpose technology for heating, cooling, heat exchange and ventilation, filtration,and/or domestic hot water


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    Domestic production and supply chain is limited


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    Small players operating in this space


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    Technology is not tested over long operational periods

    • Daikin, Nilan, Zehnder, Drexel und Weiss, Minotair, Build Equinox, Clivet




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    Green Hydrogen


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    Renewable Natural Gas




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    Biofuel


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    Biomethane




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    titleRenewable Energy Procurement Limitations


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    REC Purchasing

    • NYSERDA monopolizes REC purchasing from renewable energy projects




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    Deployment timeline is highly uncertain


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    Price per ton of carbon is highly uncertain and will likely be volatile/low based onprevious emissions trading scheme outcomes






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