The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is a public benefit corporation created in 1975 by the New York State Legislature.NYSERDA has major programs in energy and environmental research, radioactive and hazardous waste management, tax-exempt bond financing, energy analysis and planning, and energy efficiency grants. Its responsibilities include:Conducting a multifaceted energy and environmental research and development program to meet New York State's diverse needs;Helping industries, schools, hospitals, and not-for-profits implement energy efficiency measures;Providing objective, credible, and useful energy analysis to guide decisions made by major energy stakeholders in the private and public sectors;Managing the Western New York Nuclear Service Center at West Valley, including: (1) overseeing the State's interests and share of costs at the West Valley Demonstration Project, a federallstate radioactive waste clean-up effort, and (2) managing wastes and maintaining facilities at the shut-down State-Licensed Disposal Area; Participating in the Malta Rocket Fuel Area "Supefind" site clean-up and managing facilities at the site on behalf of the State;Coordinating the State's activities on nuclear matters, and designing, constructing, and operating State facilities for disposal of low-level radioactive waste, once siting and technology decisions are made by the State; and Financing energy-related projects, reducing costs for ratepayers.NYSERDA derives its basic research revenues from an assessment levied on the intrastate sales of New York State's investor-owned electric and gas utilities. Additional research dollars come from limited corporate funds and a voluntary annual contribution by the New York Power Authority. More than 245 of NYSERDA's research projects help the State's businesses and municipalities with their energy and environmental problems. Since 1990, NYSERDA has successfully developed and brought into use more than 60 innovative, energy-efficient, and environmentally acceptable products and services. These contributions to the State's economic growth and environmental protection are made at a cost of less than $1 per New York resident per year.Federally funded, the Energy Efficiency Services program is working with more than 220 businesses, schools, and municipalities to identify existing technologies and equipment to reduce their energy costs. representations, expressed or implied, as to the fitness for particular purpose or merchantability of any product, apparatus, or service, or the useklness, completeness, or accuracy of any processes, methods, or other information contained, described, disclosed, or referred to in this report. The Sponsor, the State of New York, and the contractor make no representation that the use of any product, apparatus, process, method, or other information will not infringe privately owned rights and will assume no liability for any loss, injury, or damage resulting fiom, or occurring in connection with, the use of information contained, de...
