ERG Coordinating New York State’s Impacts and Resilience Assessment

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has selected ERG to serve as the coordinator for an assessment to assist them in understanding and documenting current and future impacts related to changing weather conditions across the state. Led by New York-based and national experts and stakeholders, the assessment will provide local, state, and national decisionmakers with the tools and information they need to take current and projected impacts into consideration. 

To date, ERG has helped NYSERDA design the assessment process; articulate eight key sectors of focus; assemble diverse sector-based technical workgroups to lead the assessment’s day-to-day work; and convene technical meetings to kick off the assessment. Over the next two years, ERG will continue to support planning, logistics, publishing technical findings, and translating scientific information into useful and accessible digital communication products.

ERG is collaborating with NYSERDA and more than 60 universities, companies, agencies, and nonprofit organizations to ensure that the assessment is driven by the issues that matter to a wide range of New Yorkers and contains the information they need to make informed decisions.