N.Y. Public Buildings Law § 90: Definitions

§ 90. Definitions. As used in this article:

1. "Authority" shall mean the power authority of the state of New York

established under title one of article five of the public authorities

law.

2. "Decarbonization" and "decarbonize" means eliminating all on-site

combustion of fossil-fuels and associated co-pollutants with the

exception of back-up emergency generators and redundant systems needed

to address public health, safety and security, providing heating and

cooling through thermal energy, and thermal energy networks, from

non-combustion sources, and to the greatest extent feasible producing

on-site electricity that is one hundred percent renewable.

3. "Highest-emitting facilities" means state-owned facilities that are

among the highest producers of greenhouse gas emissions and collectively

account for at least thirty percent of the greenhouse gas emissions as

recorded by the authority's Build Smart NY program established pursuant

to Executive Order 88 of 2012.

4. "Thermal energy" shall have the meaning provided in subdivision

twenty-eight of section two of the public service law.

5. "Thermal energy network" shall have the same meaning as defined in

subdivision twenty-nine of section two of the public service law.

6. "State energy research and development authority" shall mean the

New York state energy research and development authority established

under title nine of article eight of the public authorities law.

7. "State-owned facilities" or "facilities" includes "building" as

defined by section eighty-one of this chapter, "dormitory" as defined by

section three hundred seventy of the education law, and "facility" as

defined by section three hundred seventy of the education law.