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S. 1308 113th Congress Senate

Energy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 2013

Official title: A bill to amend the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to encourage the increased use of performance contracting in Federal facilities.

Introduced: July 16, 2013 Introduced by: Christopher A. Coons Democratic · Delaware See on congress.gov
Energy Congressional oversightEnergy efficiency and conservationGovernment buildings, facilities, and propertyPerformance measurement
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Public contracts and procurementPublic utilities and utility rates
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Energy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 2013 - Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to direct each federal facility energy manager to consider, not later than two years after completion of a comprehensive energy evaluation of a federal agency's facilities: (1) implementing any energy-saving or conservation measure that the agency identified in the evaluation that is life cycle cost-effective, and (2) bundling individual measures of varying paybacks together into combined projects. (Under current law, the energy manager is not required to consider such actions.)

Requires the energy manager, as part of the Web-based compliance certification system, to provide reasons for not implementing life cycle cost-effective measures.

Requires each agency to: (1) use the benchmarking systems selected or developed for the agency under the Act to track energy savings realized by the agency through the implementation of energy-saving or conservation measures and submit information regarding such savings for publication on a website of the Department of Energy (DOE), and (2) consider using energy savings performance or utility energy service contracts to implement such measures.

Establishes a goal of entering into energy savings performance contracts or utility energy service contracts equal to $1 billion in each year during the 5-year period beginning on January 1, 2014. Requires each agency to report annually to DOE, and DOE to report to Congress, on progress towards achieving such goal.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1308: Energy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 2013. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1308/
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"S. 1308: Energy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 2013." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1308/.
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