Post Carbon Ithaca (Ithaca, NY)

Potluck at 6:00pm, Workshop at 7:00pm

A presentation on the money available for PV panels, energy audits and energy efficiency work on residential and commercial buildings in NY, and the easy methods to access these resources. The presenter, Charle-Pan Dawson, works for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) actually went through and participated in the programs that she helped create.

From the presenter: "The programs I used for my house in Troy were administered by NYSERDA and CPC, the Community Preservation Corp., so I finally got to use a program I helped create! It has been a good experience, one that I would be happy to share. Usually it is a maze of confusion and the reward seems not worth the effort, but with a little guidance and someone else leading the way through the morass of forms, websites, assistance, incentives, state and federal tax credits, etc. the return on time investment can be much more rewarding. And why not take advantage of these credits? I think sometimes that these programs are designed to confuse and make it difficult to actually get the money! However, if we crack the code and figure it out, we can make the system work for us."

Charle-Pan Dawson works as a project manager for a high performance buildings program, and help develops green building programs at NYSERDA, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. She has authored web pages for NYSERDA at http://www.nyserda.org/programs/Green_Buildings/

She is also a LEED accredited professional and studying to become a Dynamic Governance facilitator.

This event was originally scheduled for February 6th.

Cost: Donations.

Location:
The Ironweed House
98 Grand St.
Albany, NY 12202
Click here for a map

Contact: 518 429-8233 or via email address below.

Sponsored by: The Ironweed Co-op