We're working on a dorm project with apartment style units such that it's essentially multi-family housing. Each apartment has a kitchen and is, according to my MEP, therefore being provided with its own electrical panel to comply with NEC requirements. The panel for each unit has multiple circuits including lighting, plug loads, etc. To achieve this credit, then, is the only possible way to do it to meter each end use within each panel and therefore multiple the number of meters somewhat exponentially? Are there other methodologies for building electrical service that folks have used that both meet this NEC requirement and most cost-effectively meet the Advanced Energy Metering credit?
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Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
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February 8, 2019 - 3:43 pm
This tends to be very difficult to do in a multi-family residential project. Under the old M&V credit you used to be able to do sampling and extrapolate. Since this credit is now explicitly about metering I don't think that would work.