ORS 470.530
Qualifications

  • duties
  • certification program

(1)

Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, the Director of the State Department of Energy may establish qualifications for sustainable energy project managers and may exercise oversight to ensure compliance with those qualifications. A sustainable energy project manager shall provide the promotion, technical and financial support and verifications necessary to administer an energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan.

(2)

A sustainable energy project manager may administer an energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan only within a utility service territory of an investor-owned or consumer-owned utility that provides electricity or gas services.

(3)

A sustainable energy project manager shall serve the utility service territory for which the sustainable energy project manager has been selected by the director. The sustainable energy project manager shall provide loan program information and technical and financial information to promote energy efficiency and use of renewable energy at the neighborhood and community levels. The sustainable energy project manager shall be responsible for small scale local energy project verification and for monitoring program effectiveness for energy efficiency and sustainable technology loans and small scale local energy program loans. The sustainable energy project manager may administer the energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan program within the utility service territory.

(4)

A city, county, metropolitan service district or other local government entity, or a nonprofit, for-profit, tribal or state entity, may be a sustainable energy project manager if the entity meets the qualifications established by the director under this section and is approved by the director to provide promotion, outreach and customer support related to the energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan program within a utility service territory. The Public Purpose Fund Administrator is an ex officio sustainable energy project manager. The Public Purpose Fund Administrator shall act as the sustainable energy project manager in any utility service territory that is not served by another sustainable energy project manager.

(5)

The director shall establish a sustainable energy project manager certification program. However, the Public Purpose Fund Administrator or a consumer-owned utility is not required to obtain a sustainable energy project manager certificate and the Public Purpose Fund Administrator is not subject to any qualifications established by the director for a sustainable energy project manager. [2009 c.753 §7; 2010 c.92 §8; 2013 c.8 §5]

Source: Section 470.530 — Qualifications; duties; certification program, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors470.­html.

470.050
Definitions
470.060
Application for financing
470.065
Confidentiality of information provided by or on behalf of applicant
470.070
Small Scale Local Energy Project Advisory Committee
470.080
Standards for small scale local energy projects
470.090
Approval or rejection of project financing by director
470.100
Committee review of rejection or approval in different amount
470.110
Gifts credited to Small Scale Local Energy Project Loan Fund
470.120
Limit on loan to amount not funded by other sources
470.130
Appropriation of Small Scale Local Energy Project Loan Fund
470.135
Administration of small scale local energy project loan program funds and accounts
470.140
Rulemaking authority
470.145
State Department of Energy to develop marketing plan
470.150
Loan contract
470.155
Loan contract in form of intergovernmental agreement
470.160
Payment from loan funds
470.170
Security for loan
470.180
Withholding of state funds due to municipal corporation that defaults on loan
470.190
Remedies
470.200
Refinancing of project
470.210
Municipal corporation may enter into loan contract
470.220
Issuance of bonds
470.225
Procedure for bond issuance
470.230
Bond proceeds credited to Small Scale Local Energy Project Loan Fund
470.240
General obligation bonds to include promise to pay principal amount
470.270
General obligation refunding bonds
470.280
General obligation bond repayment from sinking fund
470.290
Bond indebtedness limited to constitutional limit
470.300
Small Scale Local Energy Project Administration and Bond Sinking Fund
470.310
Procedure if sinking fund inadequate
470.500
Goals
470.505
Delay or suspension of program
470.510
State Department of Energy may enter contracts for loan issuance
470.515
Rules
470.520
State Department of Energy may contract for performance of duties
470.525
Quarterly report
470.530
Qualifications
470.535
Applications for certification as project manager
470.540
State Department of Energy to notify unsuccessful applicants
470.545
Appeal of certification decision
470.550
Term of certification of project manager
470.555
Project managers
470.560
Rules
470.565
Loan applicant request for energy savings projection
470.570
Energy Project Supplemental Fund
470.575
Jobs, Energy and Schools Fund
470.580
Energy Project Bond Loan Fund
470.585
Energy Revenue Bond Repayment Fund
470.590
Proposals
470.595
Investment with financial manager
470.600
State Department of Energy may enter agreements to disburse supplemental capital funds
470.605
Local governments may direct moneys to certain funds to finance loans
470.610
Issuance of bonds
470.615
Payment of bonds
470.620
Bond pledges
470.630
Form of disbursement
470.635
Requirement for energy savings projection
470.640
Amount of loans
470.645
Application for loan
470.650
Residential small scale local energy projects
470.655
Project initiation fee
470.660
Investor-owned utilities
470.665
Consumer-owned utilities
470.670
Repayment requirement for customer served by electric utility and gas utility
470.675
Cost eligibility for ratemaking purposes
470.680
State Department of Energy to identify forms of acceptable security
470.685
Recording liens
470.690
Avoidance of foreclosure
470.695
Sale of real property
470.700
Use of loan offset grant moneys
470.710
Apprenticeship and job training
470.715
Costs of adopting rules
470.720
Loan program information to be provided by utilities
470.800
Clean Energy Deployment Fund
470.805
Renewable Energy Development Subaccount
470.810
Clean energy deployment program
470.815
School district projects
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