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Understanding Your Con Ed Bill

The First Step to Energy Savings is Understanding Your Bill – Con Ed

Community Solar

Solar Energy Has Never Been Easier. Go Solar-No Panels on your Roof & Save Up to 10% on Your Bill

Heat Smart Residential

Air Source Heat Pumps & Geothermal: Lower Your Emissions with Fossil Fuel-Free Energy Efficient Heating & Cooling

Green Energy

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Westchester Power

Learn about Your Emissions-Free Community Energy Program – Making Renewable Doable

Clean Transportation

Hybrid/EV EZ Pass Green Pass Discount Plan, which offers a special 10% discount to Hybrid vehicles getting at least 45 miles

New York Plug-In Electric Vehicle Rebate Program-NYSERDA

Electric Vehicles Make a Positive Environmental Impact. Learn about Electric Vehicles & Programs

89 cent LED bulb offer!

Get $5,000 off a Dandelion Geothermal 3-in-1 system: year-round comfort without oil or gas

Get up to $6,500 to improve your attic

Charge off-peak and earn up to $500 with Smart Charge New York

Boost your home value with solar

Get your Sensi Smart Thermostat for just $49

Con Ed Electric Car Marketplace

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Four smart things to save energy

Heat Smart: clean heating and cooling for your home

Electric Car Rebate

The Ins and Outs of Electric Vehicles — an Owner’s Perspective, by Tom and Celeste Theis

EVs for residents from Sustainable Westchester

Is it just as easy to own an electric vehicle as a traditional gas-powered one?  NBC News, October 30, 2019

Con Edison’s electric-vehicle programs

EV-Resource: a leading source of information and education on EVs

BEST Framework

The BEST (Bus Electrification for School Transportation) framework allows for easy comparison of electric school buses and fossil fuel buses. It automatically produces graphical charts of Total Cost of Ownership and Cumulative Carbon Savings. It also serves as a repository of resources to convince School officials, transportation staff and the voting public about the benefits of electric school buses in a quantified manner.
Click here to download the BEST framework, which is in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.
See the “Intro” tab for instructions on how to use this framework.
Email us if you have any problems or questions or feedback.
Version history:
v1.15/23/2021Initial version, included charger costs and subsidy thereof
v1.25/23/2021Bug fixes, better defaults
v1.35/24/2021Added data validation and locking of sheets + option to show tax levy per household
v1.45/25/2021Fixed bugs, improved documentation
v1.56/5/2021Allowed fuel and maintenance costs to be per mile or per year; added “Release notes” tab; removed 19% discount for NY electricity carbon
v1.66/20/2021Added support for inflation and Net Present Value calculations
v1.77/22/2021Added support for Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) annual revenue
v1.83/18/2022Fixed bug in V2G calculations in the per-household cost display option
v1.99/7/2023Updated resources; added WRI reference; updated pointer to State OGS E-buy buying page
v1.1010/10/2023Updated carbon calculations for gas buses (by a very small amount) and diesel buses (increase of ~13%) using the latest EPA emission numbers
v1.1110/15/2023Upgraded to the latest (2021) version of the Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated Dababase (eGRID) for carbon content of electricity in each region of the country
v1.126/3/2024Added PM2.5 support (tabular, graphic and graph with all 3 of TCO, Carbon and PM2.5) per MOVES4 model with emissions broken out for exhaust, tire wear and brake wear
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