**S.1115**

**Energy Efficiency Promotion Act**

**Section by Section Description**

**April 17, 2007**

**Title I: Promoting Advanced Lighting Technologies**

**Sec. 101.** **Accelerated procurement of energy efficient lighting.**
Requires all general purpose lighting in Federal buildings to be Energy
Star rated or designated as efficient by the Federal Energy Management
Program by October 1, 2010 pursuant to guidelines issued by the
Secretary.

**Sec. 102. Incandescent reflector lamp efficiency standards.** Expands
the types of incandescent reflector lamps covered by efficiency
standards that will be effective January 1, 2008.

**Sec. 103.** **Bright Tomorrow lighting prizes.** Awards three prizes
based on LED technology for (1) replacing the 60W incandescent (\$10M),
(2) the type 38 Halogen Parabolic reflector (\$5M) and (3) a
"twenty-first century lamp" whose performance and efficiency
characteristics exceed any light source in current use (\$5M).  Upon
achieving the prize metrics for replacing the 60 watt incandescent and
the type 38 Halogen Parabolic Reflector, the Secretary of Energy and the
Administrator of the General Services Administration are directed to
develop federal purchase guidelines for government-wide purchase so that
the U.S. Government becomes the first user of the technology.

**Sec. 104. Sense of the Senate concerning efficient lighting
standards.** Expresses the sense of the Senate that federal policies to
transform the US market to more efficient lighting should be adopted.
This section is a placeholder for a comprehensive agreement on efficient
light-bulb standards that we plan to develop with the external
stakeholders.

**Title II: Expediting New Energy Efficiency Standards**

**Sec. 201. Definition of energy conservation standard:** Authorizes DOE
to issue standards with multiple components if the underlying
legislative criteria are met (i.e. maximum energy savings that are
technically feasible and economically justified).

**Sec. 202. Standards for space heating and cooling products:**
Authorizes but does not require DOE to set up to three regional
standards for space heating and air conditioning products.

**Sec. 203. Required rulemakings:** Sets deadline for completion of
standards for residential furnace fans.

**Sec. 204. Expedited rulemakings:** Allows an expedited energy
conservation standards rulemaking if certain conditions are met --
essentially the filing of a joint comment demonstrating broad support
for a consensus standard and a determination that the legal criteria for
a standard have been met.

**Sec. 205. Preemption limitation:** Clarifies the intent of the law,
which is that federal preemption does not apply to products for which
there are no federal standards.

**Sec. 206. Energy efficiency labels:** Directs FTC , in consultation
with DOE and EPA's Energy Star program, to promulgate regulations to add
personal computers, computer monitors, televisions, set-top boxes and
digital video recorder devices to the Energy Guide labeling program.

**Sec. 207. Energy conservation standards for residential boilers.**
Adopts consensus agreement on minimum efficiency standards for
residential gas, oil and electric boilers effective in 2012.

**Sec. 208. Technical corrections.**

**Sec. 209. Electric motor efficiency standards.** Adopts consensus
agreement on new efficiency standards for three broad categories of
electric motors, effective 36 months after enactment. Motors use more
electricity than any other end-use technology.

**Sec. 210. Efficiency standards for home appliances.** Adopts consensus
agreement on new efficiency standards for residential clothes washers
and dishwashers; adopts a new standard for residential dehumidifiers;
and mandates a final rule on efficiency standards for residential
refrigerators and freezers in 2011.

**Sec. 211. Improved efficiency for appliances and buildings in cold
climates.** Authorizes research on technologies to improve the energy
efficiency of buildings and appliances in extremely cold climates and
includes energy efficient products in the rebates program in EPACT 2005.

**Sec. 212. Incentives for high efficiency products:** Authorizes the
Secretary to competitively award financial incentives for the
manufacture of high-efficiency consumer products based on bids for
dollar per megawatt hour or million Btus saved.

**Title III: Promoting High Efficiency Vehicles, Advanced Batteries and
Energy Storage**

**Sec. 301.** **Light Weight Materials Research:** Authorizes
\$60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007-2012 for the Secretary of
Energy to establish a research and development program on the use of
light-weight materials such as advanced carbon composites and
light-weight steel alloys in the construction of vehicles.

**Sec.302. Loan guarantees for fuel-efficient automobile manufacturers
and suppliers:** Amends EPACT 2005 to authorize the Secretary of Energy
to issue loan guarantees for facilities for the manufacture of parts for
fuel-efficient vehicles, including hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles.

**Sec. 303. Advanced technology vehicles manufacturing incentive
program:** Authorizes awards to manufacturers and suppliers for 30% of
qualified investment for incremental costs incurred to re-equip, expand
or establish a manufacturing facility to produce advanced technology
vehicles (advanced diesels, hybrids etc) or eligible components or any
associated engineering costs.

**Sec. 304. Energy storage and advanced vehicle technolgies.**
Authorizes comprehensive 10 year research program to ensure the U.S.
competitiveness in global energy storage markets ( \$230 million/year)
and a 5 year R D &D program for electric drive technologies ( \$200
million/.year).

**Title IV: Setting Energy Efficiency Goals**

**Sec. 401.National Goals for Energy Savings in Transportation --**
establishes the following goals for reduction in gasoline usage:

\(1\) 20 percent by 2017

\(2\) 35 percent by 2025

\(3\) 45 percent by 2030

The savings would be from EIA projected levels in those years. The
Secretary is required to submit to Congress a strategic plan that
establishes regulatory, funding and policy priorities to ensure
compliance with the national goals. The plan would be updated
biennually.

**Sec 402. National Goals for Energy Efficiency Improvement --**
establishes a goal to achieve an improvement of U.S. overall energy
productivity ( GDP per unit of energy input) of at least 2.6% by 2012 (
from the current rate of 1.8%). The Secretary is required to submit to
Congress a strategic plan that establishes regulatory, funding and
policy priorities to ensure compliance with the national goals. The plan
would be updated biennually.

**Sec. 403.** **National Media Campaign to Increase Energy Efficiency.**
Authorizes \$5,000,000 for 4 years to conduct a media campaign to
educate consumers about how they can save energy.

**Title V: Promoting Federal Leadership in Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy**

**Sec. 501. Federal fleet conservation requirements:** The Secretary of
Energy is required to issue regulations for federal and state fleets
covered by the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to reduce petroleum consumption
by 30% from a 2005 baseline by FY2016 (codifies recent Administration
executive order). Agencies may accomplish this through increased vehicle
efficiency, use of alternative fuels and other measures.

**Sec. 502. Federal requirement to purchase electricity generated by
renewable energy:** Changes the federal purchase goal in EPAct 2005 to a
requirement and increases the percentages to 10% by 2010 and 15% by
2015. Applies the purchase requirement to the Capitol complex.

**Sec. 503. Energy savings performance contracts:** Authorizes the ESPC
program permanently. Clarifies that federal agencies may retain 100
percent of the guaranteed savings under an ESPC. Expands the definition
of energy savings to include energy savings from on-site renewable
energy generation. Expands financing flexibility for federal agencies to
reduce costs. Requires a study of opportunities to use ESPCs for
transportation energy savings and other non-building applications.

**Sec.504. Federal energy management requirements:** Amends Section 102
of EPAct 2005 to reflect the current Administration executive order,
requiring a 30 percent reduction in energy consumption in existing
federal buildings by 2015.

**Sec 505. Combined heat and power and district energy at federal
sites:** Requires the identification of Federal sites that could achieve
significant energy savings through the installation of CHP or district
energy systems. Allows efficiency achieved to be counted towards
requirements in section 504.

**Sec. 506. Federal building performance standards:** Requires new and
renovated buildings to reduce fossil fuel energy consumption by 50%
compared to existing federal buildings of the same type. Fossil fuel
consumption in new and renovated buildings shall be reduced by at least
10 % every 5 years. By 2030 new and renovated federal buildings are to
be "carbon neutral".

**Sec. 507. Public and assisted housing standards:** Requires HUD to
update the standards for all public and assisted housing to the most
recent energy conservation code.

**Title VI: Assisting State and Local Governments in Energy Efficiency**

**Sec. 601. Weatherization:** Reauthorizes Weatherization Assistance
program from FY2009 through 2012. Increase authorization to \$750
million.

**Sec. 602. State Energy Programs:** Reauthorizes programs at current
levels from FY2009 through 2012.

**Sec. 603. Utility energy efficiency programs:** Requires state utility
regulatory commissions and non-regulated utilities to consider federal
standards to promote energy efficiency.

**Sec. 604. Energy efficiency and demand response assistance:**
Authorizes the National Labs to provide state commissions and utilities
with technical assistance relating to the provisions of Section 603.

**Sec. 605. Energy and Environmental Block Grant.** Authorizes grants to
units of local government for energy efficiency programs.

**Sec. 606. Energy efficiency grants for institutions of higher
learning.** Authorizes grants to institutions of higher learning for
energy efficiency and renewable energy demonstration projects.

**Sec. 607. Workforce training.** Authorizes a program to provide
workforce training to meet the demand for skilled workers in the energy
efficiency and renewable energy industries.

**Sec. 608. Assistance to States to reduce school bus idling:**
Encourages local educational agencies to develop a policy to reduce the
incidence of school bus idling. Authorizes \$5,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2007 through 2013 for the Secretary of Energy to work with
the Secretary of Education to inform States and local educational
agencies of ways to reduce bus idling and the attendant benefits.