California Public Resources Code § 25411

As used in this chapter: (a) “Allocation” means a loan of funds by the commission pursuant to the procedures specified in this chapter. (b) “Building” means any existing or planned structure that includes a heating or cooling system, or both. Additions to an original building shall be considered part of that building rather than a separate building. “Building” includes a tribal building. (c) “Eligible institution” means a school, hospital, public care institution, unit of local government, or tribe. (d) “Energy audit” means a determination of the energy consumption characteristics of a building or facility that does all of the following: (1) Identifies the type, size, and energy use level of the building or facility and the major energy using systems of the building or facility. (2) Determines appropriate eligible energy maintenance and operating procedures. (3) Indicates the need, if any, for the acquisition and installation of eligible energy measures. (e) “Eligible energy maintenance and operating procedure” means a modification or modifications in the maintenance and operations of a building or facility, and any installations therein (based on the use time schedule of the building or facility), that are designed to reduce energy consumption in the building or facility and that require no significant expenditure of funds. (f) “Eligible energy measure” means an installation or modification of an installation in a building or facility that is primarily intended to reduce energy consumption or peak electricity demand, or that allows the use of an eligible renewable energy resource, an energy storage system, or electric vehicle charging infrastructure. (g) “Eligible energy project” means an undertaking to acquire and to install one or more eligible energy measures in a building or facility, and technical assistance in connection with that undertaking. (h) “Facility” means any major energy using system of an eligible institution whether or not housed in a building. (i) “Hospital” means a public or nonprofit institution that is both of the following: (1) A general hospital, tuberculosis hospital, or any other type of hospital, other than a hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care. (2) Duly authorized to provide hospital services under the laws of this state. (j) “Hospital building” means a building housing a hospital and related operations, including laboratories, laundries, outpatient departments, nurses’ home and training activities, and central service operations in connection with a hospital, and also includes a building housing education or training activities for health professions personnel operated as an integral part of a hospital. (k) “Local government building” means a building that is primarily occupied by offices or agencies of a unit of local government or by a public care institution. ( l ) “Project” means a purpose for which an allocation may be requested and made under this chapter. Those purposes shall include energy audits, eligible energy maintenance and operating procedures, and eligible energy measures in existing and planned buildings and facilities, eligible energy projects, and technical assistance programs. (m) “Public care institution” means a public or nonprofit institution that owns: (1) A long-term care institution. (2) A rehabilitation institution. (3) An institution for the provision of public health services, including related publicly owned services such as laboratories, clinics, and administrative offices operated in connection with the institution. (4) A residential child care center. (n) “Public or nonprofit institution” means an institution owned and operated by: (1) The state, a political subdivision of the state, or an agency or instrumentality of either. (2) An organization exempt from income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. (3) In the case of public care institutions, an organization also 

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