SECTIONS 17077.30-17077.35 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 17077.30-17077.35

17077.30. (a) As part of the requirements for submission of an
application to the State Allocation Board for funding pursuant to
this chapter for any new construction or modernization project, the
applicant school district may, at the time of submission of the final
drawings to the Division of the State Architect, certify that an
energy analysis and report has been prepared that sets forth the
utility savings that would be generated if the facilities were
designed, constructed, and equipped, with the energy efficiency and
renewable technologies that would make the facilities exceed the
minimum building energy-efficiency standards mandated for new public
buildings pursuant to the latest edition of the California Building
Standards Code through the use of energy efficiency and renewable
energy technologies.
(b) The energy analysis and report shall include a verifiable
life-cycle cost analysis for each proposed energy conservation
measure and renewable energy that may include, but need not be
limited to, photovoltaic parking lot and security lighting, and solar
swimming pool and domestic water heating, showing a return on
investment of less than 15 years.
(c) The cost of the energy analyses and reports shall not exceed:
(1) Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per project for
elementary schools.
(2) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per project for middle schools.
(3) Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per project for high
schools.
(d) An applicant school district may count the following funds or
expenditures toward meeting the local matching funds requirement
under this chapter:
(1) The amount from any local sources actually expended on the
project by the applicant school district for an energy audit.
(2) The amount actually applied to the project from any incentive,
grant, or rebate, received by the applicant school district from a
program funded pursuant to Section 381 of the Public Utilities Code.

17077.35. (a) An applicant school district may include plan design
and other project components that seek school facility energy
efficiency approaching the ultimate goal of school facility energy
self-sufficiency, and may seek a grant adjustment for the state's
share of the increased costs associated with those components.
(b) Energy efficiency components that are eligible for inclusion
into a project pursuant to this section include, but are not limited
to, conservation, load reduction technologies, peakload shifting,
solar water heating technologies as described in subparagraph (A) of
paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 25619 of the Public
Resources Code and as rated and certified by the Solar Rating and
Certification Corporation, the use of ground source temperatures for
heating and cooling, photovoltaics, and technologies that meet the
emerging technology eligibility criteria established by the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission pursuant to
Section 383.5 of the Public Utilities Code. A project that received
funding from the renewable energy program administered by the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission is not
eligible for a grant adjustment under this section.
(c) In order to be eligible for the grant adjustment pursuant to
this section, the building proposed for the project, including the
energy-efficiency and renewable energy measures utilized pursuant to
this section, shall exceed the nonresidential building
energy-efficiency standards specified in Part 6 (commencing with
Section 100) of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations by an
amount not less than 15 percent for new construction projects and not
less than 10 percent for modernization projects, and shall be shown
to provide sufficient energy savings to return the cost of the
initial investment in the project over a period not to exceed seven
years. The applicant shall certify that the cost for the project
exceeds the amount of funding otherwise available to the applicant
under this chapter.
(d) The board shall provide an applicant for a new construction or
modernization project with a grant adjustment to provide an increase
not to exceed 5 percent of its state grants authorized by Sections
17072.10 and 17074.10 for the state's share of costs associated with
design and other plan components related to school facility energy
efficiency as set forth in this article.