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Int 1651-2017

Monitoring electricity and fossil fuel usage in certain facilities.

IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Environmental Protectionintroduced 2017-06-21Local Law 2018/045

Enacted as Local Law 2018/045.

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Agenda: 2017-06-21Passed: 2018-01-11Enacted: 2018-01-11

Summary

Proposed Int. No. 1651-A would require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) to provide an annual report on electricity and fossil fuel use in certain City-owned buildings, including identifying whether such buildings have been fitted with equipment for monitoring energy usage in near real-time. This bill would also require DCAS, in conjunction with other appropriate city agencies, to coordinate the installation of energy usage equipment and any necessary software in all city buildings that DCAS identifies as appropriate to receive such installation.

Committee on Environmental ProtectionDepartment of Environmental Protection and Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and Office of Recovery and Resiliency.

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22 passed · 28 died

This bill: 168 days in committee

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Sponsors (5)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2017-06-21 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2017-06-21 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2017-06-27 · Committee on Environmental Protection
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2017-06-27 · Committee on Environmental Protection
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2017-12-07 · Committee on Environmental Protection
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2017-12-07 · Committee on Environmental Protection
ActionAmended by Committee
2017-12-07 · Committee on Environmental Protection
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2017-12-07 · Committee on Environmental Protection
AdvancedApproved by Council
2017-12-11 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2017-12-11 · City Council
HeardHearing Scheduled by Mayor
2017-12-18 · Mayor
AdvancedCity Charter Rule Adopted
2018-01-11 · Administration
ActionReturned Unsigned by Mayor
2018-01-17 · City Council

Votes (5)

Aye (3)
Costa G. ConstantinidesRory I. LancmanDonovan J. Richards
Absent (1)
Stephen T. Levin
Not voting (1)
Eric A. Ulrich

Heard at (4)

City Council · 2017-12-11 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Environmental Protection · 2017-12-07 · 10:00 AM · 250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 16th Fl.
Committee on Environmental Protection · 2017-06-27 · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2017-06-21 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

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Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 4 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 4-207.2 to read as follows: � 4-207.2 Monitoring electricity and fossil fuel usage in certain facilities. a. For the purposes of this section: Covered facility. The term "covered facility" means a facility for which the city is responsible for the payment of electricity utility bills and where at least one electricity account exists for which demand was at least 300 kilowatts (kW) during the previous fiscal year. Department. The term "department" means the department of citywide administrative services. Electricity usage telemetry equipment. The term "electricity usage telemetry equipment" means equipment that allows electricity usage to be measured and reported in near real-time. b. No later than December 31, 2018, and every year for a period of three years from that date, the department shall submit to the speaker of the council and to the mayor, and make publicly available on its website, a report on electricity and fossil fuel usage in, and assessments of or improvements made to the envelopes of, certain covered facilities. Such report shall include, but need not be limited to, the following information: 1. For each covered facility: (a) Street address; (b) A statement as to whether electricity usage telemetry equipment has been installed at such facility; (c) If such electricity usage telemetry equipment has not been installed at such facility, whether such installation is appropriate and practicable and, if appropriate and practicable, the year such equipment is expected to be installed; (d) The electricity usage of such facility during the previous fiscal year or the portion of such period of time that such facility was a covered facility; (e) The change in such facility's electricity usage over the last five fiscal years or the portion of such period of time that such facility was a covered facility; and (f) The total change in electricity usage over the same period for all covered facilities. 2. For each covered facility that is a city-owned building: (a) The amount of fossil fuel used by such facility during the previous fiscal year or the portion of such period of time that such facility was a covered facility and a city-owned building; (b) The change in such facility's fossil fuel usage over the last five fiscal years or the portion of such period of time that such facility was a covered facility and a city-owned building; (c) The total change in fossil fuel usage over the same period for all covered facilities that are city-owned buildings; (d) A statement as to whether the city has assessed the envelope of such facility during the previous fiscal year; and (e) A description of any improvements made to the envelope of such facility that were commenced, continued or completed during the previous fiscal year. c. The department, in conjunction with any other appropriate city agency, shall coordinate the installation of electricity usage telemetry equipment in any covered facility where the department has determined that installation of such equipment is appropriate and practicable. d. Following installation of electricity usage telemetry equipment by the department at a covered facility, the department shall train agency personnel responsible for such facility in using such equipment to monitor electricity usage. � 2. This local law takes effect immediately. MN LS #10492 12/1/17 12:36PM 2 1 - 3 -