From Green Right Now Reports
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New York State’s Industrial and Process Efficiency program will provide over $100 million over the next two years to help data centers and manufacturers control energy costs and improve competitiveness, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced this week.
Funding will go to energy studies and capital improvements designed to increase energy efficiency and reduce waste.
Already, NYSERDA has awarded three companies — Clough Harbour & Associates (Albany), Energy & Resource Solutions (New York), and Willdan Energy Solutions (New York) — approximately $2 million each to identify cost-effective energy savings options and educate businesses on available funding.
“New York is a great place to do business, and our funds will help leverage New York’s benefits as a business location while making the businesses that are here more competitive in the marketplace,” said Francis J. Murray, Jr., President and CEO of NYSERDA.
Last year, NYSERDA invested approximately $4 million to improve energy efficiency in the manufacturing and data center industries. According to the agency, those efforts reduced energy consumption by nearly 41 million kilowatt hours of electricity—the equivalent of supplying nearly 6,300 single family homes with electricity for an entire year.
New York has the nation’s second largest concentration of data centers. Recent studies conducted by Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that New York data centers spend nearly $600 million per year on energy costs and projected that their energy consumption could double in three to five years.