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State and Local Legislation Leveraging ENERGY STAR
(Updated July 16, 2008)
State and local governments across the country are taking bold steps to protect the climate
and lower energy costs by adopting policies that leverage EPA's ENERGY STAR tools to
reduce energy use in commercial buildings. This document provides a summary of state and
local legislation that references ENERGY STAR tools such as Target Finder to set whole
building energy performance targets in new building design and Portfolio Manager to track
energy use, energy costs, and carbon emissions in existing buildings.
State/
Municipality
Legislation
Summary
Borough of West
Chester, PA
Borouah
Ordinance
This Ordinance requires that new commercial construction shall be "Designed to Earn
the ENERGY STAR" and be benchmarked annually in EPA's Portfolio Manager.
City of Denver,
CO
Executive
Order 123
Executive Order 123 requires new construction and major renovations of city buildings
to be "Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR" and requires benchmarking in Portfolio
Manager for existing and future city-owned and operated buildings.
District of
Columbia
Green Buildina
Act of 2006
The Green Building Act of 2006 requires District-owned commercial buildings to be
"Designed to achieve 75 points on the EPA national energy performance rating system
as determined by the ENERGY STAR Target Finder tool" and be benchmarked
annually using EPA's Portfolio Manager.
State of CA
AB 1103. 2007
Assembly Bill 1103 requires, as of January 1, 2009, electric and gas utilities to
maintain and make available to building owners the energy consumption data of all
nonresidential buildings in a format compatible for uploading to EPA's Portfolio
Manager tool. It also requires, as of January 1, 2010, that a nonresidential building
owner or operator disclose Portfolio Manager benchmarking data and ratings to a
prospective buyer, lessee, or lender as part of a whole-building transaction.
State ofIL
SJ 27. 2007
Senate Joint Resolution 27, 2007 establishes that for all state buildings, "new
construction of buildings shall be designed to and achieve a minimum delivered fossil-
fuel GHG emitting energy consumption performance standard of one-half the U.S.
average for that building type as defined in EPA's Target Finder tool.,It also calls
for standards to continue increasing until all new construction is designed to be carbon
neutral by 2030.
State of Ml
EO 2005-4.
2005
Executive Order 2005-4 requires the Department of Management and Budget to
establish an energy efficiency savings target for all state buildings managed by the
Department or another department or agency within the Executive Branch of state
government. It requires that all state buildings occupied by state employees be
benchmarked using Portfolio Manager.
State of MM
Next
Generation
Enerqv Act,
2007
The Next Generation Energy Act of 2007 directs the state's public utilities commission
to adjust utilities' performance incentives so they align with an annual energy-savings
goal equal to 1.5 percent of their retail energy sales. The bill also sets a state goal of
earning ENERGY STAR labels for 1,000 commercial buildings by the end of 2010.
State of OH
EO 2007-02:
Executive Order 2007-02 establishes that the State of Ohio will use EPA's Portfolio
Manager as the benchmarking tool for state-owned facilities to establish building
baselines and measure and track energy use and carbon emissions within the state.
Commonwealth
of VA
EO 48. 2007
Executive Order 48 (2007) requires all new state-owned facilities over 5,000 ft2 and
selected renovations of buildings to be designed and constructed consistent with
energy performance standards at least as stringent as EPA's ENERGY STAR rating or
the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED®' rating system. It also instructs state
agencies leasing space in buildings to give preference to buildings that have earned
the ENERGY STAR when executing a new lease of extending an existing lease.
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