If these apartment dwellers just move out of New York City then the buildings won’t need heat.
Manhattan Contrarian Ping
Good luck with a cold snap if all, or most, of the buildings are converted to all-electric. The grid won’t stand a chance.
“NYCHA is effectively exempt from LL97, since it is not subject to the penalties for non-compliance that apply to privately-owned buildings. However, the mandated emissions limits do nominally apply to NYCHA, and for this conversion NYCHA partnered with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to finance the work.”
Sure, do a project which will definitely fail in low-income housing units. The cost overruns, risks and potential damage to the systems can be mitigated by just leaving the poor tenants in the dark, without hot water or heating. Plus, after the mob takes their cut, the pols get their 10% kickbacks and the race hustlers take their cut, the costs will triple.
Here is a better solution. Every brownstone in NYC needs to be converted to electric by 2028(election season). Forget 18 story buildings occupied by low income families. Convert wealthy folks brownstones, measure the results over a period of five years and if it proves successful, then consider doing other domiciles. For their compliance, they get a mandatory tax break.
The idiots that thought LL 97 is such a great thing are the same ones who bitch and complain that there’s a housing crisis in New York City.
Just raise taxes and import more illegal aliens on welfare.
They will succeed.
All they need to do this is for YOU to allow them to re-define words.
For example, the green plan is that all of you peasants simply die. Tah, dah! We (the elites who now own all of your stuff) have led (what is left of) the world to utopia.
Temperatures recently in the Peoples Republic of Minnesota have dipped into the single digits and below zero is soon to come. My place is a toasty 71 degrees and my aged gas furnace thanks to good insulation runs sparingly. An electric heat pump in these temperatures would be running almost constantly using inefficient resistance heat and struggling to maintain any comfortable temperatures. It is ironic that the government has banned incandescent light bulbs because they use too much electricity since they use inefficient electric resistance to make light, but will mandate the same type of inefficient electric resistance to heat homes.