My project building is one of 40+ on a company's campus/site. They do not purchase electricity on a building-by-building basis, but for the entire site. My project building is metered and the information from that meter is what's been entered into Portfolio Manager. I can produce 3 months of electric energy bills for the site (along with 3 months of fuel oil bills, again for the site, which provides the district steam to the project building). I can determine the cost of my buldings electric usage using the building's meter and the charges to the site if this will be appropriate, as well as make a similar estimate of the fuel oil component based on steam usage. Is this a case where I will need to document/explain a special circumstance?
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Michael Opitz
Director of SustainabilityIconergy
60 thumbs up
August 12, 2011 - 7:08 pm
Cynthia:
I'm not sure I completely understand your question. There might be two issues here:
1) that you do not have a full 12 months of metered energy data for your building for all energy types (a requirements / compliance issue), or
2) that your energy bills do not separate out the usage of your building (a documentation issue)
#2 is much easier to fix than #1. Is #2 the only issue here?
Mike
Cynthia Fowler
Project EngineerPennoni
45 thumbs up
August 13, 2011 - 5:21 am
Thank you Mike. The issue is #2, the energy bills are not separated out for my building.
Kimberly Ja
10 thumbs up
September 14, 2011 - 2:05 pm
Please, could someone answer what to do for issue #2, when the energy bills reflect an entire campus rather than the single building we are trying to certify? Thanks.
Jenny Carney
Vice PresidentWSP
LEEDuser Expert
657 thumbs up
September 16, 2011 - 3:30 pm
Kimberly,
As long as the project building has a separate meter for all energy sources, it doesn't matter necessarily if the bills are for the campus. In this case, I've seen project teams in the past submit the monthly readings from the building's meters, along with an explanation of how the data is read, verify calibration of those meters as is always required, etc, and explain why the values on the bills are different from the values used in Energy Star.