State Executive Orders and Legislation that Require Performance Contracting
State executive
orders and legislation that require or encourage energy use reduction
and performance contracting for state and local government facilities:
The Governor's Press Release on energy efficiency in new school construction
can be found at
http://www.governor.state.az.us/news/releases/march01/3-1-01nr.html
Visit
HRS
(Hawaii Revised Statutes) 36-41: Energy retrofit and performance contracting for public
facilities.
Visit
Indiana's Greening the
Government Program where you can access the Governor's executive order
(#99-07) which includes requirements for performance contracting.
Montana has finalized its
Governor's
Executive Order to State Agencies for a
10% energy reduction in state agencies in electricity.
New Mexico has 2 items:
Governor Johnson, under Executive Order 99-40, requires State agencies to
reduce their consumption by 4% by June 2002. This is
the third in a series. The first order
required 10% and 8% was saved, the second order required 4% and
5.4% was saved.
The public building energy efficiency act was just amended to make it easier
to implement energy performance contracts.
Transportation control systems and alternative fuel vehicles that can now be funded. NM has implemented over $30 million worth of
contracts over the last 5 years. About 1/3 of
all school districts have performance contracting.
Also one university, one county, and two cities have implemented energy
performance contracting projects.
Governor Michael O. Leavitt's Executive Order dated the 23rd day of June,
1999, "Establishing A State Building Energy Efficiency Program", with
one of its purposes "to achieve significant energy savings through the
implementation of comprehensive and coordinated energy efficiency plan, whose
initial goal shall be to reduce energy costs by a cumulative total of
$20,000,000 by 2010."
Virginia just passed a law,
House
Bill 1967, (it takes effect July 1) which legalizes and encourages EPC for
all state agencies in Virginia.
On May 8, 2001, Washington Governor Locke signed
House
Bill 2247. This bill requires K-12 schools, universities and state
agencies to conduct energy audits of their facilities, to implement energy
efficiency projects that can be paid from savings and authorizes and encourages
energy performance contracting as the method of conducting audits and
implementing efficiency measures. The language of the legislation states that preliminary walk-thru audits are required for all
facilities. These may be conducted by in-house staff or others. Where there is evidence of savings potential that falls within the
ESPC program parameters (10 year payback or less) investment grade audits are required for
those sites/project opportunities. The intent and expectation is that the cost of the
investment grade audit will be encompassed in the entire ECM/ESPC package. Furthermore, the
bill also stipulates that a district must make a good faith effort to secure the services of an
ESCO if audits reveal ECM opportunities.
State of Washington
"Governor's Energy
Supply Alert Order No. 01-03" states in part "All state, county,
city, town and other governmental agencies in Washington shall take all measures
necessary and advisable to decrease total electricity and natural gas use in
owned or leased buildings and offices by 10%"
Help us update this information.
Please
email
us if you are aware of any other state executive orders or legislation that requires
energy use reductions for state facilities,
or use of performance contracting by state facilities to reduce energy
use. If you can, please include a brief description and a link to a web
page where the executive order or legislation can be found.
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