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We are purchasing green power through the local utility but it is not able to provide or sign a two-year contract because of restrictions applied to the utility. Can we still meet the credit requirements with our current purchased green power covering the

We’d like to wait to pursue the option for off-site renewable energy until after the results of the preliminary review. Is it ok to pursue this credit after the preliminary review is complete or as an appeal should we need additional points?

What time period do purchased RECs and offsets need to cover? Do we need to cover the performance period plus an additional two years after that?

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EBOM-2009 EAc4:On-Site and Off-Site Renewable Energy

Calculating total energy use for RECs purchase

Since the RECs (or equivalent) needs to meet 100% of the building’s energy use (in case of pursuing 6 points) does this mean that we need to wait until full completion of the performance period in order to get the accurate figure of energy use to reflect to the corresponding purchase? We are in the 11th month of the performance period (thus approaching the end of the 12 month period) so could we round the energy use to an estimate of the total including the 12th month remaining?

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Ben Stanley
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Tue, 12/01/2015 - 22:00

Hi Charalampos, To be 100% accurate you would need to wait until the end of the performance period to purchase those RECs. But, if you need to purchase the RECs earlier for some reason, such as processing payment or catching a good price, I could see purchasing the RECs prior to the end of the performance period based on an estimate. If you ended up being short, the reviewer might be lenient if it's very very close to 100%. Worst case you would need to buy a small group of RECs to make up the difference at the end of the performance period.

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