Pace Law School Energy Project Receives Federal 
Funding for New Research Project 

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Pace Law School Energy Project received $137,000 in federal funding from the State Technologies Advancement Collaborative (STAC). Pace received these finances as part of STAC’s Energy Efficiency, Research, Demonstration, Deployment, and Rebuild America Projects Solicitation. The solicitation, which closed in July 2005, supports joint energy research, development, demonstration and deployment of technologies where common federal and state objectives exist. The program and the solicitation emphasize the wide dissemination of results from projects and the transfer of technologies for broad application and impact.

Pace Law’s Energy Project will examine regulatory reforms that would enable greater participation by owners of small-scale on-site power in various market-based emissions trading programs. The team will determine the magnitude of the opportunity for replacement of aging and inefficient oil-and-coal fired boilers with high efficiency combined heat and power (CHP) and recommend a regulatory and administrative framework. In addition to the federal funding, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has committed $50,000 in matching funds.

"There are a surprising number of buildings throughout the Northeast which still rely on World War II era boilers to provide heat and hot water, and which contribute to a host of air quality problems", said the Energy Project’s Executive Director Fred Zalcman. "This project will propose regulatory reforms which provide building owners with a strong financial incentive to retire these dinosaurs, and replace them with modern energy systems."

STAC is a five-year pilot program funded by the U.S Department of Energy and directed by an Executive Committee, which includes representatives of the National Association of State Energy Officials, the Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Office of Fossil Energy, and an independent member.

Founded in 1976, Pace Law School is a New York Law School with a suburban campus in White Plains, NY, 20 miles north of New York City. Part of Pace University, the school offers the JD program for full-time and part-time day and evening students. Its postgraduate program includes the LLM and SJD degrees in Environmental Law and an LLM in Comparative Legal Studies. The Energy Project is an endeavor of Pace's top-rated Environmental Law program, focused on promoting regulatory and market reforms to support clean energy technologies. Pace’s Clinical Education program also is nationally ranked, offering clinics in domestic violence prosecution, environmental law, securities arbitration, criminal justice and disability rights.

Pace is a comprehensive, independent university with campuses in New York City, Pleasantville and White Plains, NY, and a Hudson Valley Center at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, NY. More than 14,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, Lienhard School of Nursing and Pace Law School.

Founded in 1976, Pace Law School is a New York Law School with a suburban campus in White Plains, NY, 20 miles north of New York City. Part of Pace University, the school offers the JD program for full-time and part-time day and evening students. Its postgraduate program includes the LLM and SJD degrees in Environmental Law and an LLM in Comparative Legal Studies. Pace has one of the nation's top-rated Environmental Law programs and its Clinical Education program also is nationally ranked, offering clinics in domestic violence prosecution, environmental law, securities arbitration, criminal justice and disability rights. www.law.pace.edu 

Pace is a comprehensive, independent university with campuses in New York City, Pleasantville and White Plains, NY, and a Hudson Valley Center at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, NY. More than 14,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, Lienhard School of Nursing and Pace Law School. www.pace.edu