Green Renter: A Survey of Solar Energy Roof Applications for NYC: Solar Thermal, Photovoltaics and White Roofs with Chris Neidl

March 16, 2009
7:00 pmto8:30 pm

Over one million buildings make up New York City’s one of a kind built environment, and the nearly one billion square feet of largely vacant roofscape that mark its vertical border amount to what is perhaps our most underutilized asset.  Our roofs have an enormous potential to accommodate clean solar energy applications and therefore to address a number of our most pressing local energy challenges, including the urban heat island effect, escalating household energy costs, power failure, growing carbon emissions, and poor air quality.

In this workshop Solar One’s Chris Neidl will introduce, define and discuss the economic and quality of life implications of three solar rooftop applications that have considerable promise in the five borough area: solar thermal technology, photovoltaics and white roofs.


Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 9:41 am | Tagged in Energy, Energy Efficiency, Photovoltaics, Photovoltaics, Solar One Events | posted by SolarOne

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