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Chapter 9

Public Buildings and

Institutions: Solar Power and
Energy Conservation as

Solutions

Legal and Financial Mechanisms for Sustainable
Buildings

Douglas N. Yeoman
Parker and Covert LLP, Sacromento, CA, United States

Chapter Outline
Alternative Energy Public Policy 159 Energy Service Contract and
Legal Mechanisms Facilitating Facility Ground Lease by Public
Development of Alternative Energy Agencies 161
Sources 160 Power Purchase Agreement by
California Clean Energy Jobs Act 160 Governmental Agency 164
Energy Management Agreement by Lease of Photovoltaic System 171
Community College Districts 160 Treatment of Environmental
Incentives 172

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PUBLIC POLICY
The California Legislature in 1974 passed Public Resources Code section
25007, which established a state policy “to employ a range of measures to
reduce wasteful, uneconomical, and unnecessary uses of energy, thereby
reducing the rate of growth of energy consumption, prudently conserve energy
resources, and assure statewide environmental, public safety, and land use
goals.” With continued increases in energy usage and energy costs, the
Legislature revised the statewide policy in 1981, adding that it was further
the policy of the state to “promote all feasible means of energy and water
conservation and all feasible uses of alternative energy and water supply

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