Heat Recovery Solutions

NYSERDA is launching the Heat Recovery Solutions RFQL 5217 to qualify manufacturers of technologies that are critical to building decarbonization in New York State. This qualification recognizes technologies that enable buildings to cost-effectively decarbonize their operations and build customer demand for low carbon solutions. Heat recovery is defined as recovering and repurposing a building's wasted thermal energy to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint. NYSERDA is looking to support heat recovery solutions that are common in other markets but novel to New York State as well as emergent heat recovery solutions. Examples include Exhaust Air Heat Pumps (widely used in European markets) and heat recovery panels designed to harvest thermal energy from underground surfaces. The program accepts applications to evaluate products on technical metrics and test market acceptance for innovative Heat Recovery Solutions. NYSERDA is accepting applications from innovators and manufacturers of heat recovery products that make it possible to recover and reuse otherwise wasted thermal energy economically from commercial, institutional, industrial, and/or multifamily building systems including: exhaust and ventilation airstreams, comfort treatment of heating/cooling/dehumidification, byproduct wasted energy from building equipment and systems, heat rejected by data processing equipment and data centers, heat byproducts from refrigeration/compression/energy production/processing plants, solar energy incident on building exterior and fenestration, infrastructure below ground, discharged wastewater, and other thermal energy sources.