Q&A
NYCHA's sustainability agenda and climate resiliency efforts
1:40:07
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Council Member Chris Banks inquires about NYCHA's progress on its sustainability agenda and climate adaptation plan. Siobhan Watson, Senior Director for Sustainability at NYCHA, provides an overview of their efforts.
- NYCHA published a sustainability agenda in 2021 with ambitious commitments
- Focus on electrifying space heating and domestic hot water systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Implementing a program to deploy 30 megawatts of solar on NYCHA rooftops by 2026
Chris Banks
1:40:07
Now I wanna move on to, sustainability commitments and climate resiliency.
1:40:14
Can you update, us on any work that NYCHA has been doing to meet its commitments, as laid out in its sustainability agenda and its climate adaptation plan?
1:40:26
And, are there other climate resiliency efforts either solely under NYCHA or joint with other agencies that NYCHA's engaged in outside of, these, directives?
Siobhan Watson
1:40:40
Sure.
1:40:40
Thank you for the question, chair.
1:40:43
We have a sustainability agenda, as you know, that was published in 2021 that set out some pretty ambitious commitments for NYCHA, and we are working as an agency to fulfill those commitments.
1:40:55
So as we discussed a little bit earlier, one of our biggest commitments is to develop a path forward to electrify our space, space heating systems and domestic hot water systems, because that is sort of our our primary user of fossil fuels and therefore, producer of greenhouse gas emissions.
1:41:15
So we are working on implementing our electrification program both in the space heating and domestic hot water systems, as we move forward.
1:41:27
We are also, deploying 30 megawatts of solar on NYCHA rooftops.
1:41:32
We are aiming to get 30 megawatts deployed by 2026, and we are well on our way to meeting that target.
1:41:40
We are pursuing energy
Chris Banks
1:41:42
How many NYCHA developments have?
