Includes whereas clauses.

Enacts new GS 115C-524.5 to require local school administrative units and charter schools to report, on or before January 31 of each year, to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) on the amount of energy and water used at each building during the previous year. Requires that usage be measured and reported using a management portfolio tool created by the US EPA and the US Department of Energy, and bearing the international Energy Star service mark. Requires DPI to report the date, on or before March 1 of each year, with the information categorized in specified ways. Requires local school administrative units to use the published data as follows: (1) use the most recent two years of published data to establish energy and water efficiency improvement goals for facility operations and maintenance and (2) use those goals to set minimum efficiency requirements for all new construction and major renovations performed on school facilities.

Allows a county that has a revolving loan fund to use the fund to give local school administrative units loans for qualified uses, defined as including acquisitions for new construction and major renovation projects that meet federal programmatic requirements and the minimum benchmark requirements of this statute, energy modeling fees, performance contracting, infrastructure supporting electric or hybrid‑electric buses, and buses powered by electricity or compressed natural gas.

Makes conforming changes to GS 115C-521.

Enacts GS 115C-218.36 requiring charter schools to report annually on energy and water usage to DPI.

Applies beginning with the 2017-18 school year.