NYSERDA - Programs to Advance Geothermal
PON - Program Opportunity Notice
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The Flexible Technical Assistance (FlexTech) Program supports New York State Commercial, Industrial, Institutional and Multifamily customers who pay into the Systems Benefit Charge by providing a cost-share for credible, objective technical assistance services. These services encompass a wide range of activities to help customers make informed clean energy investment and sustainability decisions. Customers faced with unprecedented new challenges, opportunities and technological change can use FlexTech to pinpoint which clean energy investments are right for them.
PROPOSALS DUE September 26 (Round 1) January 30, 2025 (Round 2) by 3:00 pm (ET)
Funding opportunities are available to help decarbonize your existing or new buildings, including large single buildings, or multiple buildings such as educational or medical campuses, multifamily complexes, communities, and other collocated buildings using heat pumps and thermal sources like the ground (geothermal), waste water, waste heat recovery from industrial processes, and thermal energy storage to provide heating, cooling, and hot water.
The Large-Scale Thermal Program provides cost-share for design of large single building and multiple building projects, including thermal energy networks, that serve as replicable examples for significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from heating, cooling, and hot water, using approaches that are clean and resilient, minimize energy consumption, maximize energy recovery, and offer an equitable approach to building decarbonization.
A pre-bid webinar was held on July 11th describing the program opportunities and how to submit proposals.
Due Date: 11/14/2025
The Buildings of Excellence Early Design Support Request for Proposal (the “Early Design Support RFP”) seeks Proposals for qualified design firms that will provide early-stage design support for new construction, adaptive reuse, and gut rehabilitation multifamily projects that will be clean and resilient, beautiful, and functional, and will provide healthy, safe, comfortable, and resilient living spaces for their occupants. Funding through the EDS RFP may be made available to projects that will achieve carbon neutral performance and will also be profitable for their developers and owners and demonstrate realistic cost reductions in the design and construction phases. The EDS RFP is part of the larger Buildings of Excellence Competition (the “Competition”). Design firm Partner Proposers (the “Partner Proposers”) to the EDS RFP must demonstrate how their design firm has engaged with prior projects or will engage with future projects to substantially reduce energy use and per capita carbon emissions, while increasing building resiliency, including passive and active survivability, successfully integrating architectural design attributes, and improving health, comfort, safety, and productivity for occupants, in a manner that can be replicated at scale. Successful Partner Proposers will become design firm Partners (the “Partners”) under the EDS RFP. Partners are eligible to receive up to $1.50/square foot in direct funding, up to a per project-cap of $150,000, for the proposed projects, for early-stage clean, resilient, and carbon neutral design support, as well as support for initiatives focused on broad marketing and public awareness.
NYSERDA’s On-the-Job Training (OJT) Program provides funding to clean energy businesses to reduce the financial risk of hiring and training new employees. The program provides wage reimbursement up to 75% of a new hire’s wages for their first 16-24 weeks of employment and assistance with the development of training plans. New York State businesses hiring and training new drillers and driller helpers to work on ground-source heat pump projects are eligible to apply for this funding. Public Opportunity Notice (PON) 3692 website here. NYSERDA holds “virtual office hours” on the OJT program from 2:00 to 3:00 pm on the third Thursday of each month. Alternatively, contact Andrew.Piper@nyserda.