Section 6-306
§ 6-306 Energy efficiency standards. a. Any energy-using product
purchased or leased by any agency for which the United States
environmental protection agency and the United States department of
energy have developed energy efficiency standards for compliance with
the Energy Star program shall be ENERGY STAR labeled.
b. Any faucet, showerhead, toilet, urinal, fluorescent tube lamp,
fluorescent ballast, industrial HID luminaire, downlight luminaire,
fluorescent luminaire or compact fluorescent lamp that is purchased or
leased by any agency for which the federal energy management program of
the United States department of energy has issued product energy
efficiency recommendations shall achieve no less energy efficiency or
flow rate than the minimum recommended in such recommendations.
c. Unless the director makes a determination otherwise for any
particular contract, any air-cooled chiller or water-cooled chiller that
is purchased or leased by any agency for which the federal energy
management program of the United States department of energy has issued
product energy efficiency recommendations shall achieve no less energy
efficiency or flow rate than the minimum recommended in such
recommendations.
d. Beginning January 1, 2008, the director shall make a determination
whether or not any product not specified in subdivisions a or b of this
section that is purchased or leased by any agency for which the federal
energy management program of the United States department of energy has
issued product energy efficiency recommendations shall achieve no less
energy efficiency or flow rate than the minimum recommended in such
recommendations. The director shall review any such determination not to
require compliance with the federal energy management program for any
product at least once every two years.
e. Beginning January 1, 2008, unless prior to such date the director
determines that products that would comply with this subdivision are not
available in sufficient quantities and upon reasonable terms, the
minimum energy efficiency of the power supply of any desktop computer or
desktop-derived server purchased or leased by any agency containing an
internally mounted power supply shall be 80% at 20%, 50% and 100% of
rated power supply output, when tested according to a proportional
allocation method of loading the power supply. The director shall
investigate the feasibility of purchasing such products prior to such
date. In the event that this subdivision does not apply after January 1,
2008 as a result of any determination of the director, the director
shall annually reconsider any such determination and, where applicable
as a result of any such reconsideration, the requirement in this
subdivision shall take effect as soon as practicable thereafter.
f. No lamp purchased or leased by any agency shall be an incandescent
lamp if a more energy efficient lamp is available that provides
sufficient lumens and is of an appropriate size for the intended
application.
Section 6-307
§ 6-307 Office equipment energy use reduction. a. Notwithstanding
section 6-302 of this chapter, this section shall apply to any computer,
printer, facsimile machine or photocopy machine owned or leased by any
agency.
b. The power management software options of any computer, printer,
facsimile machine or photocopy machine that contains such software shall
be calibrated to achieve the highest energy savings practicable.
c. For any computer that contains power management software, the
computer monitor and central processing unit shall be set to enter into
a low power mode after the shortest practicable period of inactivity.
Any screensaver or other computer program that directly interferes with
the proper functioning of the low power mode of any computer monitor or
central processing unit, shall be disabled.
d. Any agency need not comply with the provisions of this section if
compliance would interfere with any mission of such agency or cause
instability in any computer system.
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