Winners Selected for New York Competition that Advances Low Carbon Heating Solutions

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the selection of a winner of the Empire Technology Prize competition to advance building technologies for low carbon heating system retrofits and save energy and costs in tall commercial and multifamily buildings in New York State. Miller Proctor Nickolas was selected to receive a $1 million grand prize for demonstrating significant progress in the development and utilization of steam and high-temperature hot water heat pumps as a solution that is energy efficient and can be implemented to save consumers energy as part of New York State’s energy transition.

The Empire Technology Prize competition is supported by the Innovation and Research program at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and administered by The Clean Fight.

Miller Proctor Nickolas was selected as the winner for implementing Oilon’s ChillHeat Technology, a solution that generates both high-temperature hot water and steam for use in tall buildings. The solution will be installed at three locations in Manhattan, including an Upper East Side residential building on Fifth Avenue, an Upper West Side mixed-use building with condominiums and a Midtown health and fitness club on Park Avenue.

The team of Ambient Enterprises, Flow Environmental Systems and Gil-Bar Industries was selected for the second-place prize for commercializing a high-temperature hot water heat pump using air or water source heat and the natural refrigerant of carbon dioxide. This technology will be installed in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, at the Union Theological Seminary, a key historic building, enabling the first carbon dioxide high temperature hot water heat pump deployment in New York.