NYSERDA's Responsibilities Include:
- Conducting a multifaceted energy and environmental research and
development program to meet New York State's diverse economic
needs.
- Making energy more affordable for residential and low-income households.
- Helping industries, schools, hospitals, municipalities, not-for-profits,
and the residential sector, including low-income residents, implement
energy efficiency measures.
- Providing objective, credible, and useful energy analysis and
planning to guide decisions made by major energy stakeholders
in the private and public sectors.
- Managing the Western New York Nuclear Service Center at West Valley,
including: (1) overseeing the State's interests and share of costs
at the West Valley Demonstration Project, a federal/State radioactive
waste clean-up effort, and (2) managing wastes and maintaining
facilities at the shut-down State-Licensed Disposal Area.
- Coordinating the State's activities on nuclear energy matters including the regulation of radioactive materials, and monitoring
low-level radioactive waste generation and management in the State.
- Financing energy-related projects, reducing costs for ratepayers.
NYSERDA administers the New York Energy $martSM program,
which is designed to support certain public benefit programs during
the transition to a more competitive electricity market. Some 2,700
projects in 40 programs are funded by a charge on the electricity
transmitted and distributed by the State's investor-owned utilities.
The New York Energy $martSM program provides energy efficiency services,
including those directed at the low-income sector, research and development,
and environmental protection activities.
Federally funded, the Energy Efficiency Services program is working
with more than 540 businesses, schools, and municipalities to identify
existing technologies and equipment to reduce their energy costs. |
