Bill Text: NJ A3985 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires public utilities to include Energy Star-rated windows and doors in energy efficiency programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee [A3985 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A3985-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Requires public utilities to include Energy Star-rated windows and doors in energy efficiency programs.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning Energy Star-rated windows and doors and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, each electric or gas public utility that offers discounts or rebates to residential customers who participate in an energy efficiency program administered by the electric or gas public utility pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2018, c.17 (C.48:3-87.9) shall include windows and doors bearing the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star label in those discounts or rebates.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill directs an electric or gas public utility (utility) that offers discounts or rebates to residential customers who participate in an energy efficiency program administered by the utility pursuant to law to include windows and doors bearing the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star label in those discounts or rebates. Replacing old windows and doors with Energy Star-rated products lowers household energy bills by an average of 12 percent nationwide. Energy Star-rated windows and doors better insulate homes from the cold and also reduce the amount of heat absorbed into homes during the summer. Further, home energy use accounts for about a quarter of an individual's carbon footprint; Energy Star-rated windows and doors lower a home's energy use and thus may have a significant impact reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
