§ 39.35.030. Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1) "Public agency" means every state office, officer, board, commission, committee, bureau, department, and all political subdivisions of the state.
(2) "Department" means the state department of general administration.
(3) "Major facility" means any publicly owned or leased building having twenty-five thousand square feet or more of usable floor space.
(4) "Initial cost" means the moneys required for the capital construction or renovation of a major facility.
(5) "Renovation" means additions, alterations, or repairs within any twelve-month period which exceed fifty percent of the value of a major facility and which will affect any energy system.
(6) "Economic life" means the projected or anticipated useful life of a major facility as expressed by a term of years.
(7) "Energy management system" means a program, energy efficiency equipment, technology, device, or other measure including, but not limited to, a management, educational, or promotional program, smart appliance, meter reading system that provides energy information capability, computer software or hardware, communications equipment or hardware, thermostat or other control equipment, together with related administrative or operational programs, that allows identification and management of opportunities for improvement in the efficiency of energy use, including but not limited to a measure that allows:
(a) Energy consumers to obtain information about their energy usage and the cost of energy in connection with their usage;
(b) Interactive communication between energy consumers and their energy suppliers;
(c) Energy consumers to respond to energy price signals and to manage their purchase and use of energy; or
(d) For other kinds of dynamic, demand-side energy management.
(8) "Life-cycle cost" means the initial cost and cost of operation of a major facility over its economic life. This shall be calculated as the initial cost plus the operation, maintenance, and energy costs over its economic life, reflecting anticipated increases in these costs discounted to present value at the current rate for borrowing public funds, as determined by the office of financial management. The energy cost projections used shall be those provided by the department. The department shall update these projections at least every two years.
(9) "Life-cycle cost analysis" includes, but is not limited to, the following elements:
(a) The coordination and positioning of a major facility on its physical site;
(b) The amount and type of fenestration employed in a major facility;
(c) The amount of insulation incorporated into the design of a major facility;
(d) The variable occupancy and operating conditions of a major facility; and
(e) An energy-consumption analysis of a major facility.
(10) "Energy systems" means all utilities, including, but not limited to, heating, air-conditioning, ventilating, lighting, and the supplying of domestic hot water.
(11) "Energy-consumption analysis" means the evaluation of all energy systems and components by demand and type of energy including the internal energy load imposed on a major facility by its occupants, equipment, and components, and the external energy load imposed on a major facility by the climatic conditions of its location. An energy-consumption analysis of the operation of energy systems of a major facility shall include, but not be limited to, the following elements:
(a) The comparison of three or more system alternatives, at least one of which shall include renewable energy systems, and one of which shall comply at a minimum with the sustainable design guidelines of the United States green building council leadership in energy and environmental design silver standard or similar design standard as may be adopted by rule by the department;
(b) The simulation of each system over the entire range of operation of such facility for a year's operating period; and
(c) The evaluation of the energy consumption of component equipment in each system considering the operation of such components at other than full or rated outputs.
The energy-consumption analysis shall be prepared by a professional engineer or licensed architect who may use computers or such other methods as are capable of producing predictable results.
(12) "Renewable energy systems" means methods of facility design and construction and types of equipment for the utilization of renewable energy sources including, but not limited to, hydroelectric power, active or passive solar space heating or cooling, domestic solar water heating, windmills, waste heat, biomass and/or refuse-derived fuels, photovoltaic devices, and geothermal energy.
(13) "Cogeneration" means the sequential generation of two or more forms of energy from a common fuel or energy source. Where these forms are electricity and thermal energy, then the operating and efficiency standards established by 18 C.F.R. Sec. 292.205 and the definitions established by 18 C.F.R. 292.202 (c) through (m) as of July 28, 1991, shall apply.
(14) "Selected buildings" means educational, office, residential care, and correctional facilities that are designed to comply with the design standards analyzed and recommended by the department.
(15) "Design standards" means the heating, air-conditioning, ventilating, and renewable resource systems identified, analyzed, and recommended by the department as providing an efficient energy system or systems based on the economic life of the selected buildings.
[2001 c 214 § 16; 1996 c 186 § 402; 1994 c 242 § 1; 1991 c 201 § 14; 1982 c 159 § 3; 1975 1st ex.s. c 177 § 3.]
Notes:
Severability -- Effective date -- 2001 c 214: See notes following RCW 80.50.010.
Findings -- 2001 c 214: See note following RCW 39.35.010.
Findings -- Intent -- Part headings not law -- Effective date -- 1996 c 186: See notes following RCW 43.330.904.
Captions not law -- Severability -- 1991 c 201: See RCW 39.35C.900 and 39.35C.901.
Applicability -- 1982 c 159: See notes following RCW 39.35.010.
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