Irvington is a Clean Energy Community, a NYSERDA program to implement clean energy actions, save energy costs, create jobs, and improve the environment. The Village has so far completed 11 high impact actions including converting government fleet vehicles to electric, becoming a Climate Smart Community (Bronze), Community Choice Aggregation (choosing 100% renewable energy as the default for residents on an opt-out basis, changing street and office lights to LED (saving us much as $45,000 annually) and adopting the NY Energy Stretch code enforcement training for the building department. 

As of January 2024, as much as $500,000 is available to Irvington for completed Clean Energy Community tasks. But funds are available to NY municipalities on a first come, first serve basis, so we want to organize quickly. 

List of Completed High Impact Actions • Clean Fleets (100 points) - 10/13/2020 • Climate Smart Communities Certification - Bronze (600 points) - 3/30/2021 • Community Campaigns - Clean Heating and Cooling (500 points) - 3/8/2022 • Community Campaigns - Demand Response (200 points) - 5/4/2021 • Community Campaigns - Electric Vehicles (200 points) - 11/21/2023 • Community Choice Aggregation - 100% Renewable Default Supply (1500 points) - 3/30/2021 • Community Choice Aggregation - Expired Version (0 points) - 10/13/2020 • Energy Code Enforcement Training - Leadership Round (200 points) - 10/26/2021 • LED Street Lights - Cobra Head Fixtures (700 points) - 1/26/2021 • LED Street Lights - Decorative Fixtures (200 points) - 4/6/2021 • Municipal Clean Fleets Inventory (200 points) - 2/6/2024 • NYStretch Energy Code (1200 points) - 10/20/2021

Count of Completed High Impact Actions 12

Clean Energy Communities funding includes support for community campaigns that encourage residents to: