2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 33 - Municipalities and Parishes
RS 33:130.814 - Definitions
§130.814. Definitions
As used in this Subpart:
(1) "Energy efficiency improvement" means an installation or modification that is designed to reduce energy consumption in residential or commercial buildings, and includes but is not limited to the following:
(a) Insulation in walls, roofs, floors, and foundations and in heating and cooling distribution systems.
(b) Storm windows and doors, multiglazed windows and doors, heat-absorbing or heat-reflective glazed and coated window and door systems, additional glazing, reductions in glass area, and other window and door system modifications that reduce energy consumption.
(c) Automatic energy control systems.
(d) Heating, ventilating, or air conditioning and distribution system modification or replacements in buildings or central plants.
(e) Caulking and weatherstripping. The cost of weatherstripping shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars.
(f) Replacement or modification of lighting fixtures to increase the energy efficiency of the system without increasing the overall illumination of a residential or commercial building unless such increase in illumination is necessary to conform to the applicable building code for the proposed lighting system.
(g) Energy recovery systems.
(h) Daylighting systems.
(i) Any other modification, installation, or remodeling authorized as a utility cost-savings measure.
(2) "Renewable energy improvement" means any fixture, product, system, device, or interacting group of devices installed behind the meter of any residential or commercial building that produces energy from renewable resources including but not limited to photovoltaic systems, solar thermal systems, small wind systems, biomass systems, or geothermal systems, as may be authorized, except that it shall not include a renewable energy improvement that interferes with a right held by a public utility regulated by the Public Service Commission.
Acts 2009, No. 348, §1.
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