New York, New York

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

Region 2 Office

Total Facility Area: 315,320 rentable square feet (RSF) (EPA share)
Estimated Personnel: 851 EPA personnel
Energy Consumption: 24,342,529,866 British thermal units (Btu) per year (EPA share)
Btu per RSF per Year: 77,199
Water Consumption: 5,011,156 gallons per year
Gallons per RSF per Year: 15.89

All energy and water data are reported as of FY 2008.

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

EPA offsets 100 percent of the electricity consumption at the Region 2 office with renewable energy certificates (RECs) purchased through the Agency's current blanket green power contract. Learn more about EPA's current and past blanket green power contracts.
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