1. During the term of a performance contract, the qualified service company shall monitor the reductions in energy or water consumption and other operating cost savings attributable to the operating cost-savings measure purchased or installed under the performance contract, and shall prepare and provide a report to the using agency documenting the performance of the operating cost-savings measures:
- (a) At the time that the work required by the performance contract is completed and 1 year after that work is completed; or
- (b) At such other intervals as specified in the performance contract.
2. A qualified service company and the using agency may agree to make modifications in the calculation of savings based on:
- (a) Subsequent material changes to the baseline consumption of energy or water identified at the beginning of the term of the performance contract.
- (b) A change in utility rates.
- (c) A change in the number of days in the billing cycle of a utility.
- (d) A change in the total square footage of the building.
- (e) A change in the operational schedule, and any corresponding change in the occupancy and indoor temperature, of the building.
- (f) A material change in the weather.
- (g) A material change in the amount of equipment or lighting used at the building.
- (h) Any other change which reasonably would be expected to modify the use of energy or the cost of energy.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 3059; A 2005, 2904)