As used in the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bonding Act: A. “authority” means the New Mexico finance authority;

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B. “bonds” means energy efficiency bonds;

C. “department” means the energy, minerals and natural resources department;

D. “energy efficiency measure” means a modification or improvement to a building or complex of buildings that is designed to reduce energy consumption or operating costs or that provides a renewable energy source and may include:

(1)     insulation of the building structure or systems within the building; (2)     storm windows or doors, caulking or weatherstripping, multiglazed windows or doors, heat-absorbing or heat-reflective glazed and coated window or door systems, additional glazing, reductions in glass area or other window and door system modifications that reduce energy consumption;

(3)     automated or computerized energy control systems;

(4)     heating, ventilating or air conditioning system modifications or replacements;

(5)     replacement or modification of lighting fixtures to increase the energy efficiency of the lighting system;

(6)     energy recovery systems;

(7)     on-site photovoltaics, solar heating and cooling systems or other renewable energy systems; or

(8)     cogeneration or combined heat and power systems that produce steam, chilled water or forms of energy such as heat, as well as electricity, for use primarily within a building or complex of buildings;

E. “fund” means the energy efficiency and renewable energy bonding fund;

F. “school district” means a political subdivision of the state established for the administration of public schools, segregated geographically for taxation and bonding purposes and governed by the Public School Code [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 22, except Article 5A];

G. “school district building” means a building, the title to which is held by a school district; and

H. “state building” means a building, the title to which is held by the state or an agency of the state.