CHAPTER 156: ENERGY CONSERVATION MEASURES

As used in this chapter:

(A) “Energy conservation measure” means an installation or modification of an installation in, or a remodeling of, an existing building in order to reduce energy consumption and operating costs. The term includes any of the following:

(1) Installation or modification of insulation in the building structure and systems within the building;

(2) Installation or modification of storm windows and doors, multiglazed windows and doors, and heat absorbing or heat reflective glazed and coated window and door systems; installation of additional glazing; reductions in glass area; and other window and door system modifications that reduce energy consumption and operating costs;

(3) Installation or modification of automatic energy control systems;

(4) Replacement or modification of heating, ventilating, or air conditioning systems;

(5) Application of caulking and weather stripping;

(6) Replacement or modification of lighting fixtures to increase the energy efficiency of the lighting system without increasing the overall illumination of a building unless the increase in illumination is necessary to conform to the applicable state or local building code for the proposed lighting system;

(7) Installation or modification of energy recovery systems;

(8) Installation or modification of cogeneration systems that produce steam or forms of energy such as heat, as well as electricity, for use primarily within a building or complex of buildings;

(9) Any other modification, installation, or remodeling approved by the director of administrative services as an energy conservation measure for one or more buildings owned by the state.

(B) “Energy saving measure” means the acquisition and installation, by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, lease with an option to buy, or installment purchase, of an energy conservation measure and any attendant architectural and engineering consulting services.

Effective Date: 10-12-1994

The director of administrative services may contract with the office of energy efficiency in the department of development for a report containing an analysis and recommendations pertaining to the implementation of energy conservation measures that would significantly reduce energy consumption and operating costs in any buildings owned by the state and, upon request of its board of trustees or managing authority, any building owned by an institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code. The report shall include estimates of all costs of such measures, including the costs of design, engineering, installation, maintenance, repairs, and debt service, and estimates of the amounts by which energy consumption and operating costs would be reduced.

Effective Date: 10-12-1994; 2007 HB119 09-29-2007

If the director of administrative services wishes to enter into an installment payment contract pursuant to section 156.04 of the Revised Code or any other contract to implement one or more energy saving measures, he may proceed under Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, or, alternatively, he may request the controlling board to exempt the contract from Chapter 153. of the Revised Code.

If the controlling board by a majority vote approves an exemption, that chapter shall not apply to the contract and instead the director shall request proposals from at least three parties for the implementation of energy saving measures. Prior to providing any interested party a copy of any such request, the director shall advertise, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the contract is to be performed, his intent to request proposals for the implementation of energy saving measures. The notice shall invite interested parties to submit proposals for consideration and shall be published at least thirty days prior to the date for accepting proposals.

Upon receiving the proposals, the director shall analyze them and, after considering the cost estimates of each proposal and the availability of funds to pay for each with current appropriations or by financing the cost of each through an installment payment contract under section 156.04 of the Revised Code, may select one or more proposals or reject all proposals. In selecting proposals, the director shall select the one or more proposals most likely to result in the greatest savings when the cost of the proposal is compared to the reduced energy and operating costs that will result from implementing the proposal.

No contract shall be awarded to implement energy saving measures under this section unless the director finds that one or both of the following circumstances exists, as applicable:

(A) In the case of a contract for a cogeneration system described in division (H) of section 156.01 of the Revised Code, the cost of the contract is not likely to exceed the amount of money that would be saved in energy and operating costs over no more than five years;

(B) In the case of any contract for any energy saving measure other than a cogeneration system, the cost of the contract is not likely to exceed the amount of money that would be saved in energy and operating costs over no more than ten years.

Effective Date: 10-12-1994

(A) In accordance with this section, the director of administrative services may enter into an installment payment contract for the implementation of one or more energy saving measures. If the director wishes an installment payment contract to be exempted from Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, the director shall proceed pursuant to section 156.03 of the Revised Code.

(B) Any installment payment contract under this section for one or more energy saving measures shall provide that all payments, except payments for repairs and obligations on termination of the contract prior to its expiration, are to be a stated percentage of calculated savings of energy and operating costs attributable to the one or more measures over a defined period of time and are to be made only to the extent that those savings actually occur. No such contract shall contain any of the following:

(1) A requirement of any additional capital investment or contribution of funds, other than funds available from state or federal grants;

(2) In the case of a contract for an energy saving measure that is a cogeneration system described in division (H) of section 156.01 of the Revised Code, a payment term longer than five years;

(3) In the case of a contract for any energy saving measure that is not a cogeneration system, a payment term longer than ten years.

(C) Any installment payment contract entered into under this section shall terminate no later than the last day of the fiscal biennium for which funds have been appropriated to the department of administrative services by the general assembly and shall be renewed in each succeeding fiscal biennium in which any balance of the contract remains unpaid, provided that both an appropriation for that succeeding fiscal biennium and the certification required by section 126.07 of the Revised Code are made.

Effective Date: 03-30-1999

In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of administrative services shall adopt, and enforce rules necessary to administer sections 156.01 to 156.04 of the Revised Code. Rules adopted under this section shall establish procedures by which the director may authorize in his stead the manager of any building owned by the state to enter into contracts authorized under sections 156.01 to 156.04 of the Revised Code.

Effective Date: 10-12-1994