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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announces the availability of up to $4 million as part of its Next Generation Innovation Challenges designed to bring pioneering solutions to the marketplace for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for buildings.
The Next Generation Innovation Challenges support clean energy companies that want to develop, commercialize and demonstrate new technologies for HVAC systems. The program aims to improve the performance of advanced HVAC systems and create new economically viable opportunities for energy efficiency in buildings.
This round of funding focuses on the following four innovation challenges:
Advanced Heat Pumps: Proposals should focus on developing and commercializing new classes of heat pumps that will operate efficiently in cold climates. There is specific interest for products that can provide space heating, cooling and domestic hot water as well as those that expand the use of mini-split heat pumps to applications currently served with package terminal heat pumps. The products must be suitable for single family homes, multifamily buildings, hotels, and commercial buildings.
Efficient Thermal Distribution: Proposals should focus on innovative solutions to improve the performance of forced air, hydronic distribution, and steam distribution systems, split-system heat pumps, or new innovative solutions for efficient thermal distribution.
Technology Transfer to the New York Market: Proposals should identify advanced HVAC products commercially available outside the U.S. that could be transferred to the New York State market. Transfer activities could include development activity to adapt the technology for the New York market, technology demonstration, market research, partnering with New York entities, and/or manufacturing assistance.
Energy Pods: Proposals should focus on integrating the heating, cooling, ventilation, dehumidification and domestic hot water needs of a dwelling unit into a compact form and designed to serve individual units. Proposers will either develop the technology or adapt foreign products for use in the New York market. This challenge is seeking a prototype capable of entering production for the next round of the RetrofitNY program and scaling to subsequent rounds. RetrofitNY is a first-of-its-kind program in the U.S. to create standardized, scalable deep energy-efficient retrofit solutions that can be replicated throughout the entire housing industry.
NYSERDA will accept concept papers focusing on any of the four innovation challenges through December 12, 2019. |
