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Energy Accomplishments

The Huntington Town Board, working with the recommendations of its citizens Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency, Renewables & Sustainability (ACEERS) has instituted sustainable policies and undertaken a series of initiatives and projects to make Huntington more energy efficient, helping save money and the environment.

  1. Professional Chief Sustainability Officer: Huntington became the first Town on LI to hire a professional engineer (Terese M. Kinsley, PE, LEED AP BD+C) with the educational background and professional experience to design, implement and administer sustainability projects.
  2. High Efficiency Street Lighting: The Town is upgrading its vast network High-Pressure Sodium street lights and replacing the energy hog HPS lamps with high-efficiency, energy saving Induction lighting fixtures, concentrating on the highest wattage fixtures first. To date, all of the Town’s high-wattage HPS lamps on major roads (over 4,000) have been replaced.  
  3. Town Hall Upgrades: Town Hall is Huntington’s flagship office facility. Its energy systems have and continue to be upgraded based on LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) feasibility study recommendations.
  4. EECO Homes: "Energy Efficiency and Conservation Options" is a unique program that has provided free in-home energy assessments to nearly a thousand Huntington homeowners.  The concept is to introduce homeowners to Tier I (or the low-cost, high-impact) upgrades that can increase energy efficiency with the expenditure of very little time and effort.  
  5. Solar Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station: In April 2012, the South Parking Garage at the LIRR station in Huntington on Fairground Avenue became the first facility in New York State to be equipped with a Solar EV Charging Station. Installed with a grant from NYSERDA, Huntington provides free charging for plug-in hybrid cars.  Because the electricity is generated from the power of the sun, commuters with electric vehicles can be net-zero greenhouse gas emitters. 
  6. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG): In partnership with grantor USDOE and its administrator Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition (GLICCC), Huntington's upgrading its sanitation fleet to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered trucks. The project includes retrofit of newer vehicles and the replacement of fully depreciated garbage trucks. Approximately half the fleet is now CNG.
  7. Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrades: The treatment of solid waste is an energy intensive process, Huntington's sewage treatment plant (STP) has undergone major retrofits, including conversion of HVAC systems to from electricity to gas and replacement of all lighting with high-efficiency fixtures. One of the most energy intensive processes is drying the sludge after-product, Huntington installed three new state-of-the-art high efficient blower/dryers.  Another sustainable upgrade was the installation up-stream “in-pipe” bio-degrading technology, using natural processes to pre-treat waste before it gets to the plant further reducing energy costs.
  8.  Energy Analysis & Long Range Energy Efficiency Plan: In order to make sure the Town can upgrade all of its energy systems in a logical and efficient manner, Huntington completed a ten (10) facility energy audit of its major facilities following Town Hall and  the STP.  The long range plan recommendation include an estimate 5.7-million BTU savings electricity, oil and natural gas consumption.  Implementation of these anticipated project will reduce energy usage by 16%.  Those energy saving would represent a potential return on investment (ROI) of nearly 25% for future energy efficiency capital expenditures.