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Transition to gas-fired boilers and renewable energy sources

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Council Member Chris Banks inquires about the number of new gas-fired boilers and renewable energy sources for heating. Dylan Baker-Rice responds with information on NYCHA's transition to gas and dual-fuel systems.

The exact number of gas-fired boilers is not immediately available
When decoupling systems, NYCHA is generally switching to gas
For replacements, NYCHA is considering dual-fuel systems (gas preferred with oil backup) for redundancy
NYCHA is also exploring renewable energy sources for heating

Chris Banks

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You mentioned that, the oh, let me go back up.

0:45:21

How many of the new boilers are gas fired?

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And

Dylan Baker-Rice

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Chair, we'll have to get back to you with the number on the exact number for gas fired.

0:45:34

Generally, when we're decoupling, we're switching to gas.

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And any replacements, we're either looking at dual fuel, so, gas is preferred

Chris Banks

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Right.

Dylan Baker-Rice

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With an oil backup.

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And that's for redundancy sake in case there is an outage.

Chris Banks

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And, what are the renewable, sources of heating that you're looking at or energy that you're heating that you're looking at?

Dylan Baker-Rice

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Yeah.

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I'll pass it to my colleague, Siobhan, to talk about electrification.

Darlene Mealy

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Yeah.

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