Decarbonization Barriers
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.
Lease Concerns.
Regulatory Limitations - Rent Stabilized Apartments
- The building owner is required to provide free heat and hot water.
- No mechanism to recover investment in new systems is necessary to achieve decarbonization.
- Buildings are capital constrained
Split Incentives (tenants pays for energy).
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Con Edison Steam: assume district steam system will decarbonize:
High temperature renewable resources are limited and face hurdles: | |
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1 | Deep Bore Geothermal |
2 | Renewable Hydrogen |
3 | Carbon Capture and Sequestration |
4 | Biomethane |
5 | Electric Boilers |
6 | High-temperature thermal storage |
7 | Hight-temperature industrial heat pumps |
8 | Waste Heat Capture and Reuse |
9 | Fission |
Barriers to Electrification:
Utility Capacity Limitations: | |
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1 | Building Electric Capacity Upgrades |
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