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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 171
BY SENATORS GALLOT AND WHITE
NATURAL RESOURCES DEPT. Requests the Department of Natural Resources to adopt
administrative rules encouraging the use of combined heating and power systems in critical
government facilities.
A RESOLUTION1
To urge and request the Department of Natural Resources, in conjunction with the Public2
Service Commission, to adopt rules and regulations to ensure high levels of energy3
security in critical government facilities through implementation of on-site combined4
heat and power systems.5
WHEREAS, government buildings or facilities, including but not limited to6
command and control centers, hospitals, shelters, prisons, jails, police and fire stations,7
communications centers, data centers, water and wastewater facilities, hazardous waste8
storage facilities, biological research facilities, food preparation and food storage facilities,9
and institutions of higher education represent critical government facilities; and10
WHEREAS, these critical government facilities serve a critical function related to11
public health or safety during natural disasters and other emergency situations resulting in12
widespread outages of the electrical grid; and13
WHEREAS, critical government facilities may be anticipated to be occupied on a14
twenty-four-hour-per-day basis, maintain operations in excess of six thousand hours per15
year, and have a peak electricity demand exceeding five hundred kilowatts; and16
WHEREAS, critical government facilities would greatly benefit from combined heat17
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continuously provides electricity and thermal energy used by the facility, can provide one1
hundred percent of the facility's critical electricity needs required to sustain emergency2
operations for a minimum of fourteen days and provides an overall efficiency of energy use3
in excess of sixty percent; and4
WHEREAS, when constructing or extensively renovating a critical governmental5
facility or replacing major heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning equipment for a critical6
governmental facility, the entity with charge and control of the facility would benefit in7
terms of energy efficiency and operating costs by evaluating whether equipping the facility8
with a combined heating and power system would result in expected energy savings that9
would exceed the expected costs of purchasing, operating, and maintaining the system over10
a twenty-year period.11
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana12
does hereby urge and request the Department of Natural Resources, in conjunction with the13
Public Service Commission, to adopt rules and regulations to establish guidelines for14
equipping critical government facilities with a combined heating and power system if the15
expected energy savings exceed the expected costs.16
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the17
secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and the executive secretary of the Public18
Service Commission.19
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by McHenry Lee.
DIGEST
Gallot SR No. 171
Requests the Dept. of Natural Resources, in conjunction with the Public Service
Commission, to adopt rules and regulations to establish guidelines for equipping critical
government facilities with a combined heating and power system if the expected energy
savings exceed the expected costs.