New York, New York

This facility features the following green attributes:
Green Power
ENERGY STAR

Region 2 Office

Total Facility Area: 457,728 rentable square feet (EPA share)
Estimated Personnel: 927 EPA personnel
Energy Consumption: 29,270,082,751 Btu per year (EPA share)
Btu per Rentable Square Foot per Year: 63,946
Water Consumption: not available

All energy and water data are reported as of FY 2006.

Description

EPA's Region 2 serves New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and seven Tribal Nations. The Region 2 Headquarters in New York is the first EPA regional office to be completely powered by wind-generated electricity.

Unique Environmental Features

Energy Conservation

The Foley Square Federal Office Building, where Region 2 is housed, was labeled an ENERGY STAR® building in 1999. Average energy use at this building is approximately 71,900 Btu per square foot per year. For more information, visit ENERGY STAR's^® Profile of the Foley Square Federal Office Building.

Green Power

In FY 2008, EPA continued to support the renewable energy market by purchasing green power through two separate Agencywide blanket contracts for a combined total of 380 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable energy certificates (RECs), or “green tags,” from Sterling Planet , Luminant Energy Company , and FPL Energy . These purchases will allow EPA to offset 100 percent of electricity consumption for FY 2008 and the first half of FY 2009 at the Region 2 Office, as well as many other EPA facilities across the Agency. Procured through the Defense Energy Support Center, these contracts support renewable energy generation from wind and biomass resources in nine states.
In June 2006, EPA signed a contract to acquire 110 million kilowatt hours (kWh) in renewable energy certificates (RECs), or "green tags," from 3 Phases Energy Services over the period September 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007. This blanket purchase supplied EPA with enough RECs through FY 2007 to offset 100 percent of annual electricity consumption at the Region 2 Office and other EPA facilities not covered by separate green power contracts. Procured through the Defense Energy Support Center , this contract supported wind power generation in California, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
On April 22, 2003, EPA announced the purchase of green power to offset 100 percent of the electricity consumption at its Region 2 Headquarters office. EPA occupies approximately 35 percent of the Foley Square Building located in lower Manhattan. With deliveries beginning in June 2003, EPA entered into a three-year contract—procured by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) with the Fenner Wind Power Project—for the purchase of 6.2 million kWh of green power annually in the form of RECs. This contract supported the generation of renewable energy from 20 state-of-the-art, 1.5 megawatt wind turbines in Fenner, New York. The wind farm is the largest wind turbine facility east of the Mississippi.

For More Information

Rodney Dorwin (dorwin.rodney@epa.gov)
Chief of Facilities
290 Broadway
New York, NY 10007-1866
Phone: (212) 637-3333

Web site: www.epa.gov/region2