Sec. 103. ENERGY USE MEASUREMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
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## SEC. 103 ENERGY USE MEASUREMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY Section 543 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253) is further amended by adding at the end the following: > > ### “(e) Metering of Energy Use > > > #### “(1) Deadline > > By October 1, 2012, in accordance with guidelines established by the Secretary under paragraph (2), all Federal buildings shall, for the purposes of efficient use of energy and reduction in the cost of electricity used in such buildings, be metered.
Each agency shall use, to the maximum extent practicable, advanced meters or advanced metering devices that provide data at least daily and that measure at least hourly consumption of electricity in the Federal buildings of the agency. Such data shall be incorporated into existing Federal energy tracking systems and made available to Federal facility managers. > > > #### “(2) Guidelines > > > ##### “(A) In general > > Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary, in consultation with the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, representatives from the metering industry, utility industry, energy services industry, energy efficiency industry, energy efficiency advocacy organizations, national laboratories, universities, and Federal facility managers, shall establish guidelines for agencies to carry out paragraph (1). > > > ##### “(B) Requirements for guidelines > > The guidelines shall— > > > ###### “(i) > > take into consideration— > > > ###### “(I) > > the cost of metering and the reduced cost of operation and maintenance expected to result from metering; > > > ###### “(II) > > the extent to which metering is expected to result in increased potential for energy management, increased potential for energy savings and energy efficiency improvement, and cost and energy savings due to utility contract aggregation; and > > > ###### “(III) > > the measurement and verification protocols of the Department of Energy; > > > ###### “(ii) > > include recommendations concerning the amount of funds and the number of trained personnel necessary to gather and use the metering information to track and reduce energy use; > > > ###### “(iii) > > establish priorities for types and locations of buildings to be metered based on cost-effectiveness and a schedule of one or more dates, not later than 1 year after the date of issuance of the guidelines, on which the requirements specified in paragraph
(1)shall take effect; and > > > ###### “(iv) > > establish exclusions from the requirements specified in paragraph
(1)based on the de minimis quantity of energy use of a Federal building, industrial process, or structure. > > > #### “(3) Plan > > Not later than 6 months after the date guidelines are established under paragraph (2), in a report submitted by the agency under section 548(a), each agency shall submit to the Secretary a plan describing how the agency will implement the requirements of paragraph (1), including
(A)how the agency will designate personnel primarily responsible for achieving the requirements and
(B)demonstration by the agency, complete with documentation, of any finding that advanced meters or advanced metering devices, as defined in paragraph (1), are not practicable.” > .
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ENERGY USE MEASUREMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
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