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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="5-447" title_number="5" title_name="Economic Development and Financial Assistance Programs" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Industrial Development Financing Authority">
  <text>A project involving a commercial building, an industrial building, or an industrial process qualifies as an energy conservation project if it consists of:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>the purchase, installation, or modification of an installation that is designed primarily to reduce the consumption of energy, including:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>caulking or weather stripping;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>insulating the building structure or a system in the building;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>a storm window or door, a multiglazed window or door, a heat-absorbing or heat-reflecting window or door system, glazing, a reduction in glass area, or another window or door system modification;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iv">
      <text>an automatic energy control system;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="v">
      <text>equipment that is associated with an automatic energy control system and that is required to operate a variable steam, hydraulic, or ventilation system;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="vi">
      <text>the replacement or modification of a lighting system to increase energy efficiency;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="vii">
      <text>an energy recovery system;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="viii">
      <text>a cogeneration system;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ix">
      <text>a system for processing or converting the waste products of the industrial process to steam, electricity, heat, or other useful form of energy;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="x">
      <text>an improvement to the industrial process that reduces the energy requirements for each unit of output;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="xi">
      <text>a modification of a furnace or utility plant and distribution system including:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>a replacement burner, furnace, or boiler or any combination of them that increases the energy efficiency of the heating system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>a device for modifying a flue opening that increases the energy efficiency of the heating system; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>an electrical or mechanical furnace ignition system that replaces a standing gas pilot light; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="xii">
      <text>any other energy conservation improvement that the Authority determines by regulation to be appropriate and consistent with this subtitle; or</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>a planning or technical service or an energy audit, if the service or audit is related to or undertaken with the installation, or the modification of an installation of an item specified in item (1) of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
