Facility Energy Efficiency

Defines agency, construction, cogneration facilities, energy conservations measures, energy survey, Federal building, life cycle cost, renewable energy source, and secretary.

Defines agency, facility energy supervisor, trained energy manager, task force and energy conservation measure.

Defines Commissioning, Energy manager, Facility, Life cycle cost-effective, Ongoing commissioning, Payback period, Recommissioning, and Retrocommissioning.

Subject to certain exclusions, each Federal agency must reduce the energy consumption per gross square foot of its Federal buildings relative to a fiscal year (FY) 2003 baseline by 27% by 2014 and by 30% by FY 2015.

Agencies are required to install all life cycle cost-effective energy and water conservation measures in owned buildings to the maximum extent practicable, as soon as practicable after October 1, 2022.

Agencies are then required to report non-compliance to Congress every two years, beginning January 1, 2022.

Under the President's Federal Sustainability Plan, Federal agencies will set ambitious, data-driven 2030 goals and annual targets for energy and water reductions based on leading performance benchmarks for building type categories and the composition of the agency's building portfolio.

Agencies are required to enter energy use data for each metered covered facility into a building energy use benchmarking system.

Defines "covered facilities" to include central utility plants and distribution systems and other energy intensive operations that constitute at least 75% of facility energy or water use. (Disclaimer: This is not a general definition of covered facilities nor is it applicable outside of this specific statutory context.)

Each department and agency listed in subsection (a)(1) of section 8262c shall report to DOE on the status and implementation of the requirements of this section. 

Agency energy managers are required to complete an annual comprehensive energy and water evaluation for approximately 25% of agency covered facilities in a manner that ensures that an evaluation of such facility is completed at least once every four years. Exceptions for evaluations if complicated criteria are met.

For each measure implemented under 42 U.S.C. § 8253(f)(4), agencies are required to ensure that equipment is fully commissioned at acceptance to be operating at design specifications; a plan for appropriate operations, maintenance, and repair of the equipment is in place at acceptance and is followed; equipment and system performance is measured during its entire life to ensure proper operations, maintenance, and repair; and energy and water savings are measured and verified.

Two years after the date of completion of each evaluation, each energy manager shall implement all life-cycle cost effective ECMs (individually or bundled)

AND

Each Federal agency shall use performance contracting to address at least 50 percent of the measures identified (Guidance to determine criteria: 50% of implementation cost, counting of measures problematic).

As part of the evaluation under 42 U.S.C. § 8253(f)(3)(A), energy managers are required to identify and assess recommissioning measures (or if the facility has never been commissioned, retrocommissioning measures) for the facility.

For each covered facility, an agency is required to use a Web-based tracking system to certify compliance with the requirements for energy and water evaluations under 42 U.S.C. § 8253(f)(3), implementation of identified energy and water measures under 42 U.S.C. § 8253(f)(4), and follow-up on implemented measures under 42 U.S.C. § 8253(f)(5).

Agencies are required to install metering and advanced metering devices for energy and water in Federal buildings in accordance with U.S. Department of Energy metering guidelines.