HB 1747-S2.E - DIGEST |
(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 3/9/2009) |
Requires the department of community, trade, and economic development to develop and implement a strategic plan for enhancing energy efficiency in and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from homes, building, districts, and neighborhoods. |
Directs the department of community, trade, and economic development and the state building code council to convene a work group to inform the initial development of the strategic plan. |
Requires the state energy code to be designed to construct increasingly energy efficient homes and buildings that help achieve the broader goal of building zero fossil-fuel greenhouse gas emission homes and buildings by the year 2031. |
Requires the state building code council to: (1) Evaluate and consider adoption of the international energy conservation code in this state in place of the existing state energy code; and |
(2) Adopt state energy codes from 2013 through 2031 that incrementally move towards achieving seventy percent reduction in annual net energy consumption. |
Requires qualifying utilities to: (1) Maintain records of the energy consumption data of all nonresidential and qualifying public agency buildings to which they provide service; |
(2) Create an energy benchmark for each reporting public facility using a portfolio manager; |
(3) Report to the department of general administration, the environmental protection agency national energy performance rating for each reporting public facility included in the technical requirements for this rating; and |
(4) Link all portfolio manager accounts to the state portfolio manager master account to facilitate public reporting. |
Requires the department of community, trade, and economic development to recommend to the legislature a methodology to determine an energy performance score for residential buildings and an implementation strategy to use such information to improve the energy efficiency of the state's existing housing supply. |
Requires the department of general administration to:(1) Establish a state portfolio manager master account; |
(2) Select a standardized portfolio manager report for reporting public facilities; |
(3) In collaboration with the United States environmental protection agency, make the standard report of each reporting public facility available to the public through the portfolio manager web site; |
(4) Develop a technical assistance program to facilitate the implementation of a preliminary audit and the investment grade energy audit and design the program to utilize audit services provided by utilities or energy services contracting companies when possible; |
(5) In consultation with the affected state agencies and the office of financial management, review the cost and delivery of agency programs to determine the viability of relocation when a facility leased by the state has a national energy performance rating score below fifty; and |
(6) Conduct a review of facilities not covered by the national energy performance rating, and based on this review, develop a portfolio of additional facilities that require preliminary energy audits. |