Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 330 - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY › Division 66 - COMMERCIAL ENERGY CONSERVATION SERVICES PROGRAMS FOR PUBLICLY-OWNED UTILITIES IN OREGON › Section 330-066-0015 - Commercial Energy Conservation Services Programs

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) Each utility shall be responsible for
			 ensuring that a commercial energy conservation services program which meets or
			 exceeds the requirements of these rules is offered to all commercial building
			 customers within its service territory.
(2) Each utility shall have available on
			 request information about energy saving operations and maintenance measures for
			 commercial buildings. The information may be tailored to special classes of
			 commercial customers.
(3) Each
			 utility shall establish a procedure to notify by mail each commercial building
			 customer at least once a year of the availability of information and materials
			 about energy conservation and of energy audit services. Notification shall
			 include information on the location of the nearest office for obtaining these
			 services, procedures for obtaining such service, and fees, if any.
(4) Each utility shall actively promote the
			 availability of energy audit services whenever it enters into any phase of a
			 contingency or curtailment plan for dealing with an energy supply
			 shortfall.
(5) Each utility shall
			 be responsible for having qualified commercial energy auditors, specialists or
			 engineers or architects available to provide energy audits for commercial
			 building systems and components which exist in its service area.
(6) When a utility receives a request for a
			 commercial energy audit, a commercial energy auditor shall perform an on-site
			 audit to collect data and evaluate energy conservation measures including at
			 least: operations and maintenance measures, simple automatic control systems,
			 envelope weatherization, infiltration controls and lighting systems
			 improvements.
(7) If the commercial
			 building customer uses an average of more than 4,000 kWh of electricity per
			 month, the utility shall provide an energy audit to evaluate more complex
			 energy conservation measures such as sophisticated automatic control systems,
			 furnace and boiler efficiency improvement, heat recovery devices, HVAC system
			 modifications, infiltration controls, lighting system improvements and solar
			 water heaters or water heating heat pumps unless it can substantiate that
			 analysis of the systems in use does not require that level of expertise. The
			 utility shall use a commercial energy specialist or engineer or architect to
			 provide the energy audit described in this section.
(8) Each utility shall be responsible for:
			 having appropriate data recording forms for an energy audit, developing
			 procedures for analyzing energy use in commercial buildings and for calculating
			 potential energy savings, and designing energy audit report forms for
			 recommendations to commercial building customers.
(9)
(a)
			 Energy audit reports to a commercial building customer shall include, as a
			 minimum: a brief description of the building's energy using systems and overall
			 condition, an energy use analysis, and recommended operations and maintenance
			 measures;
(b) Commercial energy
			 audits described in section (6) of this rule shall include at least all energy
			 conservation measures for improving existing energy consuming systems which
			 have a simple payback period of three years or less. Commercial energy audits
			 described in section (7) of this rule shall include at least all energy
			 conservation measures for improving existing energy consuming systems which
			 have a simple payback period of ten years or less;
(c) Each energy conservation measure shall be
			 described. Each energy conservation measure description, except for operation
			 and maintenance measures, shall also include estimated costs, and estimated net
			 energy and dollar savings for the first year;
(d) Information about the availability of
			 state and federal tax credits and low-cost financing options for the customer
			 shall also be included.