As used in the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bonding Act:
A. "authority" means the New Mexico finance authority;
B. "bonds" means energy efficiency bonds;
C. "department" means the energy, minerals and natural resources department;
D. "energy efficiency measure" means a modification or improvement to a building or complex of buildings that is designed to reduce energy consumption or operating costs or that provides a renewable energy source and may include:
(1) insulation of the building structure or systems within the building;
(2) storm windows or doors, caulking or weatherstripping, multiglazed windows or doors, heat-absorbing or heat-reflective glazed and coated window or door systems, additional glazing, reductions in glass area or other window and door system modifications that reduce energy consumption;
(3) automated or computerized energy control systems;
(4) heating, ventilating or air conditioning system modifications or replacements;
(5) replacement or modification of lighting fixtures to increase the energy efficiency of the lighting system;
(6) energy recovery systems;
(7) on-site photovoltaics, solar heating and cooling systems or other renewable energy systems; or
(8) cogeneration or combined heat and power systems that produce steam, chilled water or forms of energy such as heat, as well as electricity, for use primarily within a building or complex of buildings;
E. "fund" means the energy efficiency and renewable energy bonding fund;
F. "school district" means a political subdivision of the state established for the administration of public schools, segregated geographically for taxation and bonding purposes and governed by the Public School Code [Chapter 22 NMSA 1978, except Article 5A];
G. "school district building" means a building, the title to which is held by a school district; and
H. "state building" means a building, the title to which is held by the state or an agency of the state.
History: Laws 2005, ch. 176, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2005, ch. 176, § 13 made the act effective July 1, 2005.