ORS Chapter 469 — Energy; Conservation

ORS 469.631. Definitions for ORS 469.631 to 469.645. As used in ORS 469.631 to 469.645: (1) Cash payment means a payment made by the investor-owned utility to the dwelling owner or to the contractor on behalf of the dwelling owner for energy conservation measures. (2) Commercial lending institution means any bank, mortgage banking company, trust company, savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, national banking association, federal savings and loan association or federal credit union maintaining an office in this state. (3) Commission means the Public Utility Commission of Oregon. (4) Cost-effective means that an energy conservation measure that provides or saves a specific amount of energy during its life cycle results in the lowest present value of delivered energy costs of any available alternative. However, the present value of the delivered energy costs of an energy conservation measure shall not be treated as greater than that of a nonconservation energy resource or facility unless that cost is greater than 110 percent of the present value of the delivered energy cost of the nonconservation energy resource or facility. (5) Dwelling means real or personal property within the state inhabited as the principal residence of a dwelling owner or a tenant. Dwelling includes a manufactured dwelling as defined in ORS 446.003, a floating home as defined in ORS 830.700 and a single unit in multiple-unit residential housing. Dwelling does not include a recreational vehicle as defined in ORS 174.101. (6) Dwelling owner means the person: (a) Who has legal title to a dwelling, including the mortgagor under a duly recorded mortgage of real property, the trustor under a duly recorded deed of trust or a purchaser under a duly recorded contract for the purchase of real property; and (b) Whose dwelling receives space heating from the investor-owned utility. (7) Energy audit means: (a) The measurement and analysis of the heat loss and energy utilization efficiency of a dwelling; (b) An analysis of the energy savings and dollar savings potential that would result from providing energy conservation measures for the dwelling; (c) An estimate of the cost of the energy conservation measures that includes: (A) Labor for the installation of items designed to improve the space heating and energy utilization efficiency of the dwelling; and (B) The items installed; and (d) A preliminary assessment, including feasibility and a range of costs, of the potential and opportunity for installation of: (A) Passive solar space heating and solar domestic water heating in the dwelling; and (B) Solar swimming pool heating, if applicable. (8) Energy conservation measures means measures that include the installation of items and the items installed to improve the space heating and energy utilization efficiency of a dwelling. These items include, but are not limited to, caulking, weatherstripping and other infiltration preventative materials, ceiling and wall insulation, crawl space insulation, vapor barrier materials, timed thermostats, insulation of heating ducts, hot water pipes and water heaters in unheated spaces, storm doors and windows, double glazed windows and dehumidifiers. Energy conservation measures does not include the dwelling owners own labor. (9) Investor-owned utility means an electric or gas utility regulated by the commission as a public utility under ORS chapter 757. (10) Residential customer means a dwelling owner or tenant who, either directly or indirectly, pays a share of the cost for service billed by an investor-owned utility for electric or natural gas service received at the dwelling. (11) Space heating means the heating of living space within a dwelling. (12) Tenant means a tenant as defined in ORS 90.100 or any other tenant.