2003 Minnesota Statutes

     16B.32 Energy use. 

    Subdivision 1.    Alternative energy sources.  Plans 
 prepared by the commissioner for a new building or for a 
 renovation of 50 percent or more of an existing building or its 
 energy systems must include designs which use active and passive 
 solar energy systems, earth sheltered construction, and other 
 alternative energy sources where feasible.  

    Subd. 2.    Energy conservation goals.  The commissioner 
 of administration in consultation with the commissioner of 
 commerce, in cooperation with one or more public utilities or 
 comprehensive energy services providers, may conduct a 
 shared-savings program involving energy conservation 
 expenditures on state-owned and wholly state-leased buildings.  
 The public utility or energy services provider shall contract 
 with appropriate state agencies to implement energy efficiency 
 improvements in the selected buildings.  A contract must require 
 the public utility or energy services provider to include all 
 energy efficiency improvements in selected buildings that are 
 calculated to achieve a cost payback within ten years.  The 
 contract must require that the public utility or energy services 
 provider be repaid solely from energy cost savings and only to 
 the extent of energy cost savings.  Repayments must be 
 interest-free.  The goal of the program in this paragraph is to 
 demonstrate that through effective energy conservation the total 
 energy consumption per square foot of state-owned and wholly 
 state-leased buildings could exceed existing energy code by at 
 least 30 percent.  All agencies must report to the commissioner 
 of administration their monthly energy usage, building 
 schedules, inventory of energy-consuming equipment, and other 
 information as needed by the commissioner to manage and evaluate 
 the program. 

    Subd. 3.    Gifts.  The commissioner may accept gifts 
 for energy efficiency improvements in state-owned and wholly 
 leased buildings.  Energy cost savings from these improvements, 
 up to the cost of these improvements, shall be deposited in a 
 special revenue fund established in the state treasury.  Money 
 in the special revenue fund is appropriated to the commissioner 
 to implement further energy efficiency improvements in 
 state-owned or wholly leased buildings. 

    HIST: 1984 c 544 s 37; 1991 c 235 art 5 s 1,3; 1994 c 632 art 
 3 s 32; 1994 c 634 art 1 s 3; 1995 c 254 art 1 s 91; 1999 c 250 
 art 1 s 57,115; 2001 c 162 s 4; 2001 c 212 art 1 s 1; 1Sp2001 c 
 4 art 6 s 7; 2002 c 379 art 1 s 114