Michigan Laws 460.1207 – Baseline home energy audit required; verification; per-meter charge; shut off for nonpayment; obligation to pay
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 460.1207
- Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
- Energy project: means the installation or modification of an energy waste reduction improvement or the acquisition, installation, or improvement of a renewable energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.1201
- Home energy audit: means an evaluation of the energy performance of a residential structure that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is performed by a qualified person using building-performance diagnostic equipment. See Michigan Laws 460.1201Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. program: means a program as described in section 203(2). See Michigan Laws 460.1201 Property: means privately owned residential real property. See Michigan Laws 460.1201 Provider: means an electric provider or a natural gas provider. See Michigan Laws 460.1009
(1) A baseline home energy audit shall be conducted before an energy project that will be paid for through charges on the utility bill under this part is undertaken. After the energy project is completed, the provider shall obtain verification that the energy project was properly installed and is operating as intended.
(2) Electric or natural gas service may be shut off for nonpayment of the per-meter charge described under section 205 in the same manner and pursuant to the same procedures as used to enforce nonpayment of other charges for the provider’s electric or natural gas service. If notice of a loan under the program is recorded with the register of deeds for the county in which the property is located, the obligation to pay the per-meter charge shall run with the land and be binding on future customers contracting for electric service or natural gas service, as applicable, to the property.