Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 30 > Chapter 2 > Subchapter 2 - Building Energy Labeling and Benchmarking

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Benchmarking: means measuring the energy performance of a single building or portfolio of buildings over time in comparison to other similar buildings or to modeled simulations of a reference building built to a specific standard such as an energy code. See
• Commercial Working Group: means the Commercial and Multiunit Building Energy Labeling Working Group established by subsection 62(b) of this title. See
• Commission: means the Public Utility Commission. See
• Department: means the Department of Public Service. See
• Distribution company: means a company under the jurisdiction of the Commission that distributes electricity or natural gas for consumption by end users. See
• Energy efficiency utility: means an energy efficiency entity appointed under subdivision 209(d)(2) of this title. See
• Energy label: means the visual presentation in a consistent format of an energy rating for a building and any other supporting and comparative information. See
• Energy rating: means a simplified mechanism to convey a building's energy performance. See
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Multiunit building: means a building that contains more than one independent dwelling unit or separate space for independent commercial use, or both. See
• Obligation: 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.
• Unit holder: means the tenant or owner of an independent dwelling unit or separate space for independent commercial use within a multiunit building. See