RISE 2019 Conference

Tria Case, Esq., is the University Executive Director of Sustainability and Energy Conservation for the City University of New York (CUNY). Ms. Case coordinates and provides resources to CUNY’s 25 institutions to meet the goal of reducing CUNY’s energy consumption and fight climate change through the Sustainable CUNY Conserves program. Ms. Case secures and manages multi-millions in funding for O&M projects including a revolving loan fund, the Sustainability Investment Fund, which supports energy savings projects. Since 2006, Ms. Case has led the development and the implementation of multiple Federal, State and City funded solar, and now storage, programs on behalf of NYC and NYS, working with stakeholder groups and leading to a significant growth in solar capacity, with storage expected to follow the same trajectory. Ms. Case formed the NYC Solar Partnership in 2006, working with the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and NYCEDC in developing and implementing comprehensive plans for large-scale solar integration and economic development. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Ms. Case formed the Smart Distributed Generation (DG) Hub, with City, State, and Federal participation. The Hub is a strategic effort to integrate storage and DG into emergency power and resiliency deployment, and continues the work of addressing the soft costs for the main stream adoption of solar and storage for all New Yorkers. Ms. Case received her undergraduate degree from Union College and earned her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and formerly served as the Director of the Office of Environmental Business Services for Empire State Development.