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§ 17084.
Separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures
(a)
Definitions
In this section:
(1)
High-performance energy efficiency measure
(2)
Separate spaces
(b)
Study
(1)
In general
Not later than 1 year after
April 30, 2015
, the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 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 energy efficiency measures; and
(B)
encouraging owners and tenants to implement high-performance energy efficiency measures in separate spaces.
(2)
Scope
The study shall, at a minimum, include—
(A)
descriptions of—
(i)
high-performance energy efficiency measures that should be considered as part of the initial design and construction of separate spaces;
(ii)
processes that owners, tenants, architects, and engineers may replicate when designing and constructing separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures;
(iii)
policies and best practices to achieve reductions in energy intensities for lighting, plug loads, heating, cooling, cooking, laundry, and other systems to satisfy the needs of the commercial building tenant;
(iv)
return on investment and payback analyses of the incremental cost and projected energy savings of the proposed set of high-performance energy efficiency measures, including consideration of available incentives;
(v)
models and simulation methods that predict the quantity of energy used by separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures and that compare that predicted quantity to the quantity of energy used by separate spaces without high-performance energy efficiency measures but that otherwise comply with applicable building code requirements;
(vi)
measurement and verification platforms demonstrating actual energy use of high-performance energy efficiency measures installed in separate spaces, and whether such measures generate the savings intended in the initial design and construction of the separate spaces;
(vii)
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; and
(viii)
any impact on employment resulting from the design and construction of separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures; and
(B)
case studies reporting economic and energy savings returns in the design and construction of separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures.
(3)
Public participation
(4)
Publication
(
Pub. L. 110–140, title IV, § 424
, as added
Pub. L. 114–11, title I, § 103(a)
,
Apr. 30, 2015
,
129 Stat. 183
.)
cite as:
42 USC 17084
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