East New York industrial business owners can save on a critical resource— energy—by participating in the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program. This program, launched in 2003, helps businesses cut energy costs through a variety of measures, including:

Energy audits
Lighting retrofits
HVAC retrofits and upgrades
Heat recovery
On-site power generation, including rooftop solar energy and cogeneration.

Cogeneration is energy produced by a central source such as a natural gas generator to produce thermal energy. This energy can provide hot water, heating, or cooling for industrial facilities and commercial buildings. By recycling this waste heat, cogeneration systems achieve typical effective electric efficiencies of 50 to 70 percent — a dramatic improvement over the average 33 percent efficiency of conventional fossil-fueled power plants. Cogenerations’ higher efficiencies also reduce air emissions of nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury, particulate matter, and carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas associated with global warming.

Through the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program, the LDCENY is working with engineering firms to address the energy needs of the East New York community. Some East New York facilities are producing energy solely through cogeneration off the Con Edison grid.

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