Chapter 421
2008 -- S 2850
AS AMENDED
Enacted 07/08/08
A N A C T
RELATING
TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS - PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Introduced
By: Senators J Montalbano, Sosnowski, Walaska, Bates, and Algiere
Date
Introduced: March 12, 2008
It is enacted by the General Assembly as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section
37-8-17.1 of the General Laws in Chapter 37-8 entitled "Public
Buildings" is hereby amended to read as
follows:
37-8-17.1.
Energy efficient resources. -- (a) In addition to the
requirements set forth in
section 37-8-19, the director of the department
of administration, in consultation with the state
energy office, shall establish, maintain, and
implement a system of rebate incentives for the
installation of energy efficient sources in
state owned and leased buildings offered by the various
public utilities providing those resources to
the state.
(b) Any public
building that is owned by the state or any department, office, board,
commission, or agency thereof, including
state-supported institutions of higher education shall
purchase or generate sixteen percent (16%) of
their electricity from renewable energy resources
by January 1, 2020, in accordance with the
following schedule:
By 2010, four and
one-half percent (4.5%) of electricity used shall be from renewable
energy resources, with an additional one percent
(1%) of electricity purchased or generated in
each of the following years 2011, 2012, 2013,
2014; and an additional one and one-half percent
(1.5%) of electricity purchased or generated in
each of the following years 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018, and 2019, from renewable energy resources.
(c) On or
before June 1, 2009 the office of Energy Resources shall file a report with the
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives detailing the progress of
the program to include, but not be limited to,
suggestions for achieving the stated goals for
renewable energy resources.
SECTION 2. This
act shall take effect upon passage.
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