§17085 Tenant Star program

Summary

Creates a voluntary Tenant Star program inside Energy Star to encourage energy saving in tenant spaces in commercial buildings. The EPA must set up the program with help from the Department of Energy. The Energy Information Administration (EIA), working with the Energy Department, must collect data in each Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey done after April 30, 2015. The EIA must gather information on types of tenants that use a lot of energy (like data centers, trading floors, and restaurants) and other building or occupancy details that help lower energy use. If the first survey after April 30, 2015 cannot do everything at once, the EIA must start building the capability and begin collecting what it can. The EIA must publish the data in grouped form and share it with EPA. Within 1 year after EPA gets enough data, and after public notice and comment, EPA must create rules like the Energy Star rating to recognize tenants who achieve high energy efficiency in separate spaces, set eligible occupancy categories using the collected data, and consider other recognition options. After the study called for in section 17084(b) is finished, EPA may, with the Secretary of Energy and after public notice and comment, create a voluntary program to recognize owners and tenants who use high-performance energy efficiency measures in designing or building separate spaces. Defined terms: "high-performance energy efficiency measure" — see section 17084; "separate spaces" — see section 17084.