{"id":337035,"date":"2026-09-03T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337035\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:18:49","slug":"a-manhattan-condos-race-against-carbon-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337035\/","title":{"rendered":"A Manhattan Condo&#8217;s Race Against Carbon Fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 1960s condo on Manhattan&#8217;s East Side was staring down carbon fines that would climb past $250,000 a year \u2014 until its board decided to act. Michael Scorrano, managing director and founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/enpg.com\/\" target=\"_self\" onclick=\" gtag(&#039;event&#039;, &#039;External Click&#039;, {&#039;event_category&#039;: &#039;Outgoing&#039;, &#039;event_label&#039;: &#039;https:\/\/enpg.com\/&#039; });\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EN-POWER GROUP<\/a>, a Verdantas Company, walks through how they swapped an aging, gas-fired heating and cooling system for electric chillers and heat pumps, all without disturbing a single shareholder&#8217;s apartment. He breaks down how the building tackled its fuel switch and what other boards can learn, from the surprising mechanical hiccup that slowed things down mid-project to the rebate programs that helped offset the cost. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.habitatmag.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Habitat&#8217;s<\/a> Carol Ott conducts the interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 1960s condo on Manhattan&#8217;s East Side was staring down carbon fines that would climb past $250,000 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-337035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}