S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
March 10, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Energy
AN ACT to authorize the New York state energy research and development
authority to study significantly improving high-performance efficiency
in commercial office buildings
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this act, the following terms
shall have the following meanings: (a) "Authority" shall mean the New
York state energy research and development authority.
(b) "Chair" shall mean the chair of the New York state energy research
and development authority.
(c) "Commercial office building" shall mean buildings used for general
office space, a professional office, or administrative office including:
(i) professional offices; (ii) administrative offices; (iii) govern-
mental offices; (iv) mixed-use offices; (v) banks or other financial
institutions; (vi) medical offices which do not use diagnostic medical
equipment; (vii) sales offices; (viii) contractor's offices, including
but not limited to construction, plumbing and HVAC; (ix) not-for-profit
or social services offices; (x) city hall or city center; and (xi) call
center or data center.
(d) "Separate spaces" shall mean areas within a commercial office
building that are leased or otherwise occupied by a tenant or other
occupant for a period of time pursuant to the terms of a written agree-
ment.
(e) "High-performance efficiency measures" which shall mean (i) "cost
effective energy efficiency measures", which shall include any building
product, material, equipment or service, and the installation, implemen-
tation, or operation thereof, that provides energy savings in an amount
that is not less than the cost of such installation, implementation or
operation; and/or (ii) "cost effective water efficiency measure" which
shall include any building product, material, equipment, or service and
the installation, implementation, or operation thereof, that provides
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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water savings in an amount that is not less than the cost of such
installation, implementation, or operation.
S 2. No later than one year following the effective date of this act,
the authority shall complete a study on the feasibility of:
(a) significantly improving energy efficiency in commercial buildings
through the design and construction, by owners and tenants, of separate
spaces with high-performance efficiency measures;
(b) encouraging owners and tenants to implement high-performance effi-
ciency measures in separate spaces; and
(c) encouraging the cooperation of commercial office buildings in
aggregating electrical load and usage utilizing demand response
programs, whether utility-based or operated by the federally designated
bulk system operator charged with maintaining the state's high-voltage
transmission system.
S 3. The study required by section two of this act, shall, at a mini-
mum, include descriptions of:
(a) High-performance efficiency measures that should be considered as
part of the initial design and construction of separate spaces;
(b) Processes that owners, tenants, architects and engineers may
replicate when designing and constructing separate spaces with high-per-
formance efficiency measures;
(c) Policies and best practices to achieve reductions in energy inten-
sities for lighting, plug loads, heating, cooling, cooking, laundry and
other systems to satisfy the needs of the commercial building tenant;
(d) Return on investment and payback analyses of the incremental cost
and projected energy savings of the proposed set of high-performance
efficiency measures, including consideration of available incentives;
(e) Models and simulation methods that predict the quantity of energy
used by separate spaces with high-performance efficiency measures and
that compare that predicted quantity to the quantity of energy used by
separate spaces without high-performance efficiency measures but that
otherwise comply with applicable building code requirements;
(f) Measurement and verification platforms demonstrating actual energy
use of high-performance efficiency measures installed in separate spac-
es, and whether such measures generate the savings intended in the
initial design and construction of the separate spaces;
(g) Best practices that encourage an integrated approach to designing
and constructing separate spaces to perform at optimum energy efficiency
in conjunction with the central systems of a commercial building;
(h) Any impact on employment resulting from the design and
construction of separate spaces with high-performance efficiency meas-
ures; and
(i) The ability of owners of commercial office buildings to cooperate
in managing electric load to reduce peak-time demand.
S 4. The authority shall consult with the public service commission,
the federally designated bulk system operator and electric corporations
and public power authorities operating in New York on their findings.
The authority may incorporate data from relevant federal agencies,
including information provided in the most recent Commercial Buildings
Energy Consumption Survey published by the U.S. Energy Information
Administration, into such findings.
S 5. Copies of the study, as required by section two of this act,
shall be provided to the temporary president of the senate, the chair of
the senate committee on energy and telecommunications, the speaker of
the assembly, and the chair of the assembly committee on energy.
S 6. This act shall take effect immediately.