§ 16-6-401 — Definitions

(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Economic life" means the projected or
anticipated useful life of a major facility as expressed by a
term of years;
(ii) "Energy-consumption analysis" means the
evaluation of all energy systems and components by demand and
type of energy including the internal energy load imposed on a
major facility by its occupants, equipment and components, and
the external energy load imposed on a major facility by the
climatic conditions of its location. The energy-consumption
projections shall take into account daily and seasonal
variations in energy system output during normal operations;
(iii) "Energy systems" means all utilities, including
heating, air-conditioning, ventilating, lighting and the
supplying of domestic hot water;
(iv) "Initial cost" means the monies required for the
capital construction or renovation of a major facility;
(v) "Life-cycle cost analysis" means a study to
compute life-cycle costs, as required in this act;
(vi) "Life-cycle cost" means the cost of a major
facility including its initial cost, the cost of the energy
consumed over its economic life and the cost of its operation
and maintenance;
(vii) "Major facility" means any publicly owned
building having eighteen thousand (18,000) square feet or more
of gross floor area;
(viii) "Public agency" means every state office,
officer, board, commission, committee, bureau, department and
all political subdivisions of the state; and
(ix) "Renovation" means as defined by W.S. 9-2-
3001(b)(xi).