Energy Technical Assistance
The Land Use Law Center at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University operates the U.S. DOE’s New York-New Jersey Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Technical Assistance Partnership (NY/NJ CHP TAP). NY/NJ CHP TAP is one of ten regional CHP-TAPs formed by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide technical assistance for adoption of CHP. With the support of three expert engineering / technical assistance contractors, the NY/NJ CHP TAP offers free, on-site Energy evaluations to help industrial, commercial, federal, institutional, and other large energy users evaluate CHP for their facilities.
NY/NJ Onsite Energy TAP is funded by federal tax dollars with the goal of helping industrial and other large energy users transition to clean energy, lower costs, reduce emissions, and contribute to a clean energy economy. It provides NO-COST technical assistance screening for interested sites and provides advanced services to maximize economic impact and reduce risk from initial screening to installation to operation and maintenance of onsite energy technologies. This service includes screening. market analysis, and best practices to help industrial facilities and other large energy users increase the adoption of onsite clean energy technologies including battery storage, combined heat and power, district energy, fuel cells, geothermal, industrial heat pumps, renewable fuels, solar PV, solar thermal, thermal storage, waste heat to power, and wind.
Importantly, as part of DOE’s Industrial Assessment Center Implementation Grant Program, small and medium-sized manufacturers may receive grants of up to $300,000 to implement recommendations made by the NY/NJ Onsite Energy TAP. Free technical energy assessments are offered regardless of whether or not end users are interested in applying for a grant. However, a technical assessment is a prerequisite in obtaining that grant.
More about DOE’s Grant Program
Quick Links
- Onsite Energy Fact Sheet
- CHP / Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Tools from US DOE’s NY/NJ CHP TAP (PDF)
- US Department of Energy Onsite Energy Program
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Resources
More Information
For questions or to participate in the Onsite Energy TAP Program in New York/New Jersey, please contact:
Jim Freihaut, Ph.D.
Director
Pennsylvania State University
Phone: (814) 863-2091
Email: jdf11@psu.edu
Bill Valentine
Assistant Director
Pennsylvania State University
Email: wjv3@psu.edu
Tom Bourgeois
Senior Advisor, New York New Jersey Onsite Energy TAP
Director, Policy Analysis, Land Use Law Center
Phone: (914) 391-1804
Email: tbourgeois@law.pace.edu