Interested in energy education?

• Energy Education in the Classroom - Attention teachers! The Energy Smart Students Program, a K-12, classroom education program for New York teachers, is sponsoring free workshops for teachers. Sign up for energy education training today!
   
• SchoolPowerNaturally.org - Solar education designed to educate New Yorkers about energy, and, in particular, the role solar electric power – photovoltaics, or PV – can play in providing clean energy for our homes, schools and workplaces. School Power...Naturally is expanding and upgrading their program. Funding is available for statewide or regional activities designed to create a long-term and sustainable support system for technical and educational activities, including creative uses of the existing data set.
   
• Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation, and Protection resource page for teachers and students — explore the world of power generation and how it affects you and the environment.
  
  
  

Interested in Renewable Energy?

New York Energy $mart SM Photovoltaic (PV) or Solar-Electric System Incentive Program - Are you interested in installing a PV system on your school? NYSERDA has cash incentives available for the installation of small PV or solar-electric systems.   Interested in additional information and resources on renewable energy?

Interested in Alternate-Fuel and reduced-emission vechicle programS?

• Visit NYSERDA's Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Program page for more information on how NYSERDA encourages fleets to purchase alternative-fuel vehicles (AFVs) and install fueling facilities or charging stations.

Interested in technical and financial assistance through nyserda?

NYSERDA is dedicated to providing objective technical and financial assistance to New York 's K-12 schools. The program assists New York 's school administrators and facility managers in building and maintaining school buildings that provide a safe, healthy, and energy-efficient environment learning environment.

The following list represents the Program Opportunity Notices (PONs), and other forms of assistance available for eligible school districts.

• FlexTech/Technical Assistance
• Existing Facilities Program
• New Construction Program
• Commercial Kitchens
• Small Commercial Lighting
• Energy in Schools Conference Presentations

• NY-CHPS High Performance School Guidelines - The purpose of NY-CHPS is to provide a framework that helps school districts and their design teams design and build sustainable school buildings that enhance the educational environment and facilitate learning. High performance schools optimize resources over the life of the facility, are less expensive to operate than standard buildings, and help to ensure healthy, safe, and high quality learning environments for all occupants.
   
• High Performance Schools Design and Operations Online Training - Attention architects and engineering firms! This training is a great tool to educate the project design team and the entire facilities and operations staff responsible for building and operating a high performance school. Make your next high performance school design a great success, with a design and facilities team that will keep the school operating in peak performance. Architect, Engineering and Automation & Control Firms To Help Build a High Performance School .
   
• School Energy Benchmarking - How energy efficient are your schools? Would you like to find out? Well, now you can…for FREE! The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), through TRC Energy Services, is currently offering the newest technologies available to analyze and rank the energy performance of K-12 schools in New York State . Already, more than 15% of all public schools similar to yours have taken advantage of this FREE service. In fact, some of these schools have taken steps based on our recommendations to become more energy efficient and have already begun to see SAVINGS! For additonal information please view a sample report. (161 kb.pdf)
  
  
• Check out our latest no-cost/low-cost energy saving tips and materials for schools here.
  
  
• NYSERDA has also developed several free tools to help schools reduce their energy consumption. Please try our Plug Load Estimator and HVAC Setpoint Estimator .

• New York Energy $mart ^SM Offices Project saves energy by enhancing the efficiency of office equipment, in many cases without purchasing or replacing equipment.
  
  

Interested in ASSISTANCE FROM LIPA AND NYPA?

• LIPA provides informational resources, guidance, incentives, and renewable energy to its customers. School officials should be aware that they can access LIPA funding and assistance from NYPA at the same time. For information, please visit http://www.lipower.org or call 1-800-692-2626.
• NYPA offers a turn-key approach to energy services including, audit, design, construction and financing of an energy services project. The project financing is offered at a low-interest rate and repaid through sharing the project’s energy savings, after which the participants retain all the energy savings. For more information, please visit http://www.nypa.gov or call or call NYPA’s business development office at 518-433-6734.

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