Bill Text: NY S06160 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to study significantly improving high-performance efficiency in commercial office buildings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-30 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6255 [S06160 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06160-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6160
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations
        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:
     1    Section  1. Definitions. For purposes of this act, the following terms
     2  shall have the following meanings: (a) "Authority" shall  mean  the  New
     3  York state energy research and development authority.
     4    (b) "Chair" shall mean the chair of the New York state energy research
     5  and development authority.
     6    (c) "Commercial office building" shall mean buildings used for general
     7  office space, a professional office, or administrative office including:
     8  (i)  professional  offices;  (ii)  administrative offices; (iii) govern-
     9  mental offices; (iv) mixed-use offices; (v)  banks  or  other  financial
    10  institutions;  (vi)  medical offices which do not use diagnostic medical
    11  equipment; (vii) sales offices; (viii) contractor's  offices,  including
    12  but  not limited to construction, plumbing and HVAC; (ix) not-for-profit
    13  or social services offices; (x) city hall or city center; and (xi)  call
    14  center or data center.
    15    (d)  "Separate  spaces"  shall  mean  areas within a commercial office
    16  building that are leased or otherwise occupied  by  a  tenant  or  other
    17  occupant  for a period of time pursuant to the terms of a written agree-
    18  ment.
    19    (e) "High-performance efficiency measures" which shall mean (i)  "cost
    20  effective  energy efficiency measures", which shall include any building
    21  product, material, equipment or service, and the installation, implemen-
    22  tation, or operation thereof, that provides energy savings in an  amount
    23  that  is  not less than the cost of such installation, implementation or
    24  operation; and/or (ii) "cost effective water efficiency  measure"  which
    25  shall  include any building product, material, equipment, or service and
    26  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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     1  water  savings  in  an  amount  that  is  not less than the cost of such
     2  installation, implementation, or operation.
     3    §  2. No later than one year following the effective date of this act,
     4  the authority shall complete a study on the feasibility of:
     5    (a) significantly improving energy efficiency in commercial  buildings
     6  through  the design and construction, by owners and tenants, of separate
     7  spaces with high-performance efficiency measures;
     8    (b) encouraging owners and tenants to implement high-performance effi-
     9  ciency measures in separate spaces; and
    10    (c) encouraging the cooperation  of  commercial  office  buildings  in
    11  aggregating   electrical   load  and  usage  utilizing  demand  response
    12  programs, whether utility-based or operated by the federally  designated
    13  bulk  system  operator charged with maintaining the state's high-voltage
    14  transmission system.
    15    § 3. The study required by section two of this act, shall, at a  mini-
    16  mum, include descriptions of:
    17    (a)  High-performance efficiency measures that should be considered as
    18  part of the initial design and construction of separate spaces;
    19    (b) Processes that  owners,  tenants,  architects  and  engineers  may
    20  replicate when designing and constructing separate spaces with high-per-
    21  formance efficiency measures;
    22    (c) Policies and best practices to achieve reductions in energy inten-
    23  sities  for lighting, plug loads, heating, cooling, cooking, laundry and
    24  other systems to satisfy the needs of the commercial building tenant;
    25    (d) Return on investment and payback analyses of the incremental  cost
    26  and  projected  energy  savings  of the proposed set of high-performance
    27  efficiency measures, including consideration of available incentives;
    28    (e) Models and simulation methods that predict the quantity of  energy
    29  used  by  separate  spaces with high-performance efficiency measures and
    30  that compare that predicted quantity to the quantity of energy  used  by
    31  separate  spaces  without  high-performance efficiency measures but that
    32  otherwise comply with applicable building code requirements;
    33    (f) Measurement and verification platforms demonstrating actual energy
    34  use of high-performance efficiency measures installed in separate  spac-
    35  es,  and  whether  such  measures  generate  the savings intended in the
    36  initial design and construction of the separate spaces;
    37    (g) Best practices that encourage an integrated approach to  designing
    38  and constructing separate spaces to perform at optimum energy efficiency
    39  in conjunction with the central systems of a commercial building;
    40    (h)   Any   impact   on  employment  resulting  from  the  design  and
    41  construction of separate spaces with high-performance  efficiency  meas-
    42  ures; and
    43    (i)  The ability of owners of commercial office buildings to cooperate
    44  in managing electric load to reduce peak-time demand.
    45    § 4. The authority shall consult with the public  service  commission,
    46  the  federally designated bulk system operator and electric corporations
    47  and public power authorities operating in New York  on  their  findings.
    48  The  authority  may  incorporate  data  from  relevant federal agencies,
    49  including information provided in the most recent  Commercial  Buildings
    50  Energy  Consumption  Survey  published  by  the  U.S. Energy Information
    51  Administration, into such findings.
    52    § 5. Copies of the study, as required by  section  two  of  this  act,
    53  shall be provided to the temporary president of the senate, the chair of
    54  the  senate  committee  on energy and telecommunications, the speaker of
    55  the assembly, and the chair of the assembly committee on energy.
    56    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.