New York Consolidated Laws, Public Buildings Law - PBB § 90. Definitions

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.