Press Release: Community Environmental Center Wins Weatherization Award

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

CONTACT: Alexis Greene, 718-784-1444, ext. 156

646-382-7047, agreene@cecenter.org

Long Island City, NY (January 20, 2010) – Community Environmental Center (CEC), the New York-based non-profit dedicated to green building and energy efficiency, has received the State & Local Energy Report’s 2009 Weatherization Award.

The award recognizes CEC’s installation of solar thermal systems in two multifamily buildings belonging to Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation in Brooklyn, in March 2009.

These were the first solar thermal systems of their kind to be installed in New York State under the state’s Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP).

“Community Environmental Center is proud to receive this Weatherization Award,” said Richard Cherry, CEC’s founder and CEO. “With solar heating systems like those in the Cypress Hills buildings, renewable energy from the sun can be used to help pre-heat your hot water, which reduces the amount of energy used, lowers a home-owner’s heating costs and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. CEC thanks the State & Local Energy Report for recognizing this achievement.”

EarthKind Energy, New York State’s leading authority on solar thermal technologies and CEC’s collaborator on the project, explains the process:

Solar panels containing a mixture of water and a food-grade glycol (the same substance that is in ice cream and toothpaste) absorbs 94 percent of the sun’s energy. The heated solution then transfers the heat to water in a storage tank, which provides pre-heated water for a building’s existing hot-water tanks and reduces the energy used by 50 percent or more. And provides plenty of hot water for your morning shower.

Following their successful Brooklyn partnership, CEC and EarthKind are now installing New York City’s largest solar hot water system, for the apartment complex at Wadsworth Terrace on West 189^th Street. At that site, 42 hot water collectors will save more than 3,500 gallons of heating oil each year and will eliminate the emission of more than 86,000 pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

CEC continues to lead New York State in terms of weatherizing low-income homes and multi-family buildings, primarily in Brooklyn and Queens.

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