Reddit mentions of Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era

The book Reinventing Fire went into this at some length.

It's hard to quantify exactly, but if you look at the Passive House standard, houses built or renovated to that standard seem to reduce energy use by 80-90%.

• https://www.passipedia.org/operation/operation_and_experience/measurement_results/energy_use_measurement_results
  
• http://smartenergyliving.org/templates/featurestories.cfm?inewsid=71
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house
  
  There isn't much info on NY specifically, since the Passive House standard has barely caught on here in the US. But there are a great number of them in Germany, where the movement started.