LL97 Electrification & LL88
The Heat Pumps Are the Easy Part.
Before anyone prices a heat pump, someone has to answer whether the building can power it. We tell you what your service and distribution carry today, what your plan would require, and what closing the gap involves.
Sound familiar?
Your board has asked about Local Law 97 twice. There's a consultant's report somewhere with a number in it that made the room go quiet. A mechanical contractor has quoted heat pumps. And nobody has told you whether the building can actually run them.
You don't need another opinion on the plan. You need to know whether the building can power it.
01 / The clock
The double credit window closes December 31, 2026.
Under Local Law 97 (LL97)'s beneficial electrification credit, eligible equipment installed through 2026 earns double credits. Installations from 2027 through 2029 earn standard credits. After 2030, none.
The penalty for exceeding the limit is $268 per metric ton over, assessed every year.
For a building running over its emissions limit, the difference between double and standard credits can be worth six figures in avoided penalties across the compliance period. There is no separate application. The credit is recognized in your LL97 filing through DOB NOW once eligible equipment is installed.
The deadline runs on the install date. Not the plan. Not the intention. The install.
And 2030 is the harder cliff. The emissions limits tighten, and many buildings that sat comfortably under the first period's cap will not sit under the next one.
Regulatory status verified against DOB guidance, August 2026.
02 / The order of work
The capacity question comes before the equipment question.
A building sized decades ago for lighting and elevators was not built to carry electric heat, electric hot water, and vehicle charging at the same time.
Before a mechanical contractor can scope a retrofit, someone has to answer whether the service, the risers, and the distribution can take the added load. If the answer is no, the fix is a Con Edison service upgrade, which is a permit-heavy, coordination-heavy project with timelines that vary by neighborhood and available capacity.
Con Edison is absorbing a surge of exactly these requests. Con Edison has reported that roughly 44 percent of new business load requests in its New York City territory over a recent twelve month period were for vehicle charging or electric heat.
This is why the electrical assessment comes first, not last. The mechanical design, the budget, and the filing all depend on an answer that starts with the electrical scope.
03 / What we handle
The electrical work that has to happen first.
Capacity and load studies
A documented assessment of what your service, risers, and distribution carry today, and what your planned electrification would require.
Con Edison service upgrades
We have taken buildings through the Con Edison service upgrade process, and we handle the coordination from application forward.
Service and distribution work
Service upgrades, switchgear, and distribution equipment, sized to the building.
Panel, riser, and feeder upgrades
The infrastructure between the service and the equipment, which is often where the capacity gap actually sits.
Permits and DOB NOW filings
Handled in-house.
Documentation for your filing team
The electrical record your Registered Design Professional needs, organized rather than assembled under deadline.
The electrical scope of climate compliance is not one service. It is capacity studies, Con Edison coordination, lighting and submetering, filings, and the documentation that ties them together. We do all of it, under our own master license, and we have been doing electrical work in New York since 2003.
We don't install heat pumps or boilers.
We make the building able to power them. We work alongside your mechanical contractor, your energy consultant, and your Registered Design Professional, and we stay in our lane on purpose. The electrical scope is the part most compliance plans discover late, and it is the part we do to one documented standard.
04 / LL88
Lighting, submetering, and the filing that closes it.
Local Law 88 (LL88) required lighting upgrades and tenant submetering. The filing was due May 1, 2025, and buildings that have not demonstrated compliance were required to file by May 1, 2026. Fines accrue annually until the building complies. An LL88 report has to be certified by a registered design professional, a licensed master electrician, or a licensed special electrician. We hold master licenses, so on LL88 we do the work and we file the report ourselves. An LL88 attestation is also one of the conditions DOB requires before a building can demonstrate good faith efforts for LL97 penalty mitigation, so a building with LL88 still open cannot pursue that relief.
Lighting upgrades also cut electrical load, which shows up in your LL97 emissions number without touching the mechanical plant.
05 / EV charging
Charging infrastructure, sized for what comes next.
Chargers and heat pumps draw on the same headroom. Installing charging without planning for electrification can consume the capacity the building will need later, which turns one project into two.
We plan charging against the building's actual capacity and against what else is coming, so the infrastructure gets sized once.
06 / The assessment
Start with the answer you actually need.
LL97 and LL88 apply to buildings over 25,000 square feet. If you manage one, or a portfolio of them, this is built for you.
The Electrical Readiness Assessment tells you:
- What your building's electrical service and distribution carry today
- What your planned electrification would require
- The gap between the two, in plain numbers
- What closing that gap involves, in scope and sequence
- What Con Edison coordination adds to your timeline
You leave knowing whether the plan is viable, before anyone spends money designing around an assumption.
Per building flat fee, fully credited toward the work you approve.
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Find out if your building can power the plan.
One assessment. A clear answer on capacity, scope, and timeline, before the mechanical design is written.