Dear LEED Experts...
I am involving one energy model work. It is factory production type Building.That project Installed equipments total power in KW-150. if i feed this total energy 150kw to my baseline energy model, my equipment load is exceed more than 40% of overall Energy consumption.How can i handle this Total equipment loads. Can i get suggestions from experts.....
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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May 5, 2023 - 1:52 pm
That is not unusual for a manufacturing facility. In fact many have process loads far higher than 40%. So you need to find the required savings outside the process load or you need to prepare exceptional calcualtions to claim savings within the process loads. I'm not sure what you mean by How can I handle this equipment loads?
Neeraj Sharma
Sustainability ManagerConserve Solutions- Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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May 6, 2023 - 2:45 am
If you have a backup for 150 kW, see what equipmets the project is using and claim some savings by exceptional calculations. If you don't have a backup, and just roughly you got to know 150 kW, in such case you can use table G-B of ASHRAE 90.1 user manual for equipment load. ASHRAE mentions if equipment load is not know one can use the values as per tabel G-B however it is to be noted that whatever value the table provides, you have to increase it in both the cases till the equipment load becomes more than 25% of total in the baseline case