Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances.
For many NYCHA tenants, gas service outages are far too common. On Monday, the housing authority reported 79 such disruptions across its more than 300 developments—breakdowns that can last for months at a time, forcing tenants to cook on hot plates or turn repeatedly to takeout.
But officials are pursuing a solution they say will help avoid that hardship: swapping out gas stoves for energy-efficient induction ranges at 100 NYCHA apartments, with a goal of expanding the upgrades to 10,000 public housing units in the coming years.
The $32 million plan was first announced in 2023 by NYCHA, the New York Power Authority and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which asked appliance manufacturers to submit proposals for non-gas powered stoves that could be installed at scale across the housing authority’s aging buildings…