Energy Services Programs

Project Profile:  SUNY-NYPA Ties Show Impact of Energy Efficiencies

One of the more striking examples of the effectiveness of energy-efficiency projects can be seen in the thriving and growing relationship the Power Authority has with the sprawling State University of New York.

With 64 campuses and close to 400,000 students, SUNY is the largest comprehensive system of public higher education in the United States. NYPA energy efficiency specialists work with selected SUNY campus facilities managers in examining and diagnosing the energy health of widely varying physical structures of the system’s two- and four-year institutions.

Such efforts are helping 19 SUNY college locations save nearly 20,000 kilowatts, and $10 million, annually. Some examples:

• Buffalo State College—
  Energy management system for six linked campus buildings; outdoor lighting upgrade
  Cost / Annual Savings: $1.1 million / $209,000
   

• SUNY Geneseo—
  29-building lighting upgrades; occupancy sensors
  Cost / Annual Savings: $1.4 million / $260,000
   

• SUNY Stony Brook—
  New motors for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems; exterior lighting; digital energy management control system
  Cost / Annual Savings: $18 million / $4 million, plus yearly elimination of 13,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions
   

• SUNY Purchase—
  Lighting upgrades, energy management systems, variable speed motors, boiler upgrades
  Cost / Annual Savings: $6.5 million / $1.2 million

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Other SUNY projects have been completed or are under way at campuses in Albany, Brockport, Fredonia, New Paltz, Old Westbury, Oneonta, Oswego and Potsdam; Alfred, Cobleskill, Delhi, Morrisville and Farmingdale; the Environmental Science and Forestry College in Syracuse; the Syracuse Health Science Center; and the SUNY administration building in Albany.