(1) Upon the request of a state agency, the public service commission shall provide to the state agency a certificate of energy cost savings based upon actual energy use and cost data as provided to the commission by the state agency.
  (2) At the close of each fiscal year, the amount of any unencumbered balance of a state appropriation for fuel or utilities to a state agency which resulted due to energy management actions as certified by the public service commission, as provided in subsection (1), shall be distributed as follows:

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 18.1254

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  (a) 75% of the energy cost savings, as certified by the commission, shall be carried forward to the next fiscal year and allocated to a special energy conservation work order or work project account to be used for energy conservation measures in the facilities of the state agency to which the certificate was issued.
  (b) The remaining unencumbered balance shall be credited to the fund from which appropriated.
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