The Greater Greener New York Initiative is a terrific opportunity for the HVAC community. Announced in 2007, the Greater, Greener New York is part of PlaNYC, a revolutionary declaration backed by Mayor Bloomberg.
PlaNYC sets forth a variety of environmentally conscious goals. The earliest of these actions involves an Energy Star benchmarking, for commercial buildings over 50,000 sqft, that is required by May 2011. The benchmark is easily filed for online and made public. Buildings will be required to record their energy ranking and make efforts to increase efficiency.
While energy efficiency has always been a goal for the HVAC community, the Greater, Greener New York Initiative and PlaNYC puts an even greater emphasis on it. Nearly all of NYC's hundreds of skyscrapers will be looking for creative ways to save energy. This can vary from lighting retrofits, to chiller optimization, to load-shedding. It's possible that new ways to monitor and save energy that have not yet even been implemented will come from these efforts. As a whole, the HVAC community will need to meet this challenge as one of the #1 goals moving forward.
No comments:
Post a Comment