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State Planning and Incentive Structures | Energy Efficiency Actions | Energy Supply Actions
State Planning and Incentive Structures
Lead By Example—Energy Efficiency in Public Facilities
Status: Completed/Further Work In Progress
Details: Governor Bobby Jindal signed Executive Order BJ 2008-8 on January 30, 2008, which requires the Division of Administration to set energy efficiency goals for state facilities, office buildings, and complexes for fiscal years 2009, 2010, and 2011 by July 30, 2008. Senate Bill 240, signed on July 6, 2007, requires construction or renovation of major state-funded facilities to be designed and built to exceed state energy codes by at least 30%. These energy efficiency improvements must be cost effective based on a life cycle cost analysis with a payback of no more than thirty years. Over time, the law reduces the size of qualifying buildings that must meet the efficiency standards: from July 6, 2007, until December 31 2008, all new projects larger than 20,000 gross square feet (GSF) must qualify; for the 2009 calendar year, buildings larger than 15,000 GSF must qualify; for calendar year 2010 projects larger than 10,000 GSF must qualify; and 2011 and thereafter, projects larger than 5,000 GSF must qualify. The law also encourages state building projects to achieve ENERGY STAR designation.
- http://www.gov.state.la.us/assets/docs/OfficialDocuments/
2008EOGreenGovernment.pdf - http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/
incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=LA06R&state=LA&CurrentPageID=1&RE=0&EE=1
Lead By Example—Energy Efficient Appliance and Equipment Purchase Requirements for Public Facilities
Status: Completed
Details: Governor Jindal signed Executive Order BJ 2008-8 on January 30, 2008, which directs the Division of Administration to review its purchasing practices to ensure 100% compliance with existing state requirements related to energy conservation; to adopt best energy purchasing practices; and to develop or increase standards for such products as appliances, light bulbs, smart chargers, and computers, using ENERGY STAR as a minimum standard.
Lead By Example—Clean Energy Goals for Public Facilities
Status: No Activity Identified
Lead By Example—Energy Efficiency and Alternative Fuel Goals for Public Fleets
Status: In Progress
Details: Governor Jindal signed Executive Order BJ 2008-8 on January 30, 2008, which directed the Division of Administration to develop average fuel economy goals for the state automobile fleet and take necessary measures to assure that those goals are met by 2010. The measures should include expanding the number of hybrid and other fuel efficient vehicles as well as alternative fuel vehicles on the list of vehicles on state contract.
State and Regional Energy Planning
Status: No Activity Identified
Determining the Air Quality Benefits of Clean Energy—Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Set Asides (NOX Budget Trading Program)
Status: No Activity Identified
Determining the Air Quality Benefits of Clean Energy—Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Set Asides (CAIR Budget Trading Program)
Status: No Activity Identified
Energy Efficiency Actions
Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards
Status: No Activity Identified
Public Benefit Funds for Energy Efficiency
Status: No Activity Identified
Building Codes for Energy Efficiency—Commercial Programs
Status: Goes Beyond ECPA
Details: ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1-2004, and 2006 IECC for buildings not covered by ASHRAE, mandatory statewide; can use COMcheck to show compliance
Building Codes for Energy Efficiency—Residential Programs
Status: Goes Beyond ECPA
Details: The 2006 International Residential Code is mandatory statewide. Can use REScheck to show compliance.
State Appliance Efficiency Standards
Status: No Activity Identified
Energy Supply Actions
Renewable Portfolio Standards
Status: No Activity Identified
Public Benefit Funds for Clean Energy Supply
Status: No Activity Identified
Output-Based Environmental Regulations
Status: No Activity Identified
Interconnection Standards—Clean Distributed Generation
Status: No Activity Identified
Details: In June 2008, the governor signed Act No. 543 into law. The Act amends the state's net metering standards to allow for non-residential systems up to 300 kW to net meter. Previously a limit of 100 kW applied. In June 2003, Louisiana enacted net-metering legislation that instructed the state's Public Service Commission (PSC) to develop interconnection rules. This is no activity because it only applies to net metered units.
- http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=LA03R&state=LA&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=0
- http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503709
Interconnection Standards—Net Metering
Status: Completed
Details: On July 2, 2008, Governor Bobby Jindal signed S.B. 359, which increases the eligible size of commercial and agricultural distributed generators from 100 kW to 300 kW. The eligible size for a residential system remains at 25 kW.
Louisiana enacted net metering legislation in June 2003. Statewide net metering rules apply to residential facilities with a capacity of <25 kW and commercial systems with a capacity of <100 kW. Interconnected systems must meet safety and performance standards, including those from the National Electric Code (NEC) and the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC). A manual external disconnect switch is required for all interconnected system and utilities must provide customer-generators with a meter capable of measuring the flow of electricity in both directions.