Hello,
Our project is officially Energy Star certified with a score for 2012 (energy data from June 2011-June 2012 was used to achieve this score). Our LEED PP for other credits Dec 2012-Sept. 2013 (with some credit shorter) - all other credit overlap 30 days/end within 30 days of each other. My only question is must we update our Energy star score for 2013? Or can we use our 2012 score so long as we set our earliest PP start date to July 2011?
Thanks in advance for any feedback :)
Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
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October 10, 2013 - 10:19 pm
Nena. If I work out what you are trying to do it's to make your Energy Star current by backdating all the credits. Unfortunately what you suggest won't work as the E* must be current. Basically your performance period is ending September 2013, but your E* ends June 2012...that really means you don't have a current Energy Star for the building. However, IF you have been printing an SEP for all the months following June 2012...you can use the latest one (it doesn't need to be stamped). You'll need to extend your performance period on all other credits to tie up with the SEP. Then close the performance period on all other credits to within 30 days....(Right now of course all that is impossible because of the government shutdown and the EPA website for E* is closed). Good luck
Nelina Loiselle
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October 16, 2013 - 5:38 pm
Thanks Barry. I understand what you are saying, however I just saw this under LEED User FAQ for EAp2:
For EAc6, the performance period should fall within 30 days of the latest performance period end date for all other credits and prerequisites. It should not follow the period of the Energy Star label associated with the streamlined path for EAp2.
Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
LEEDuser Expert
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October 17, 2013 - 5:08 pm
Nena, I hope that i have what you need. Let's go back a little. From your original post your E* used data from June 2011 to June 2012, so that your E* star, issued in June 2012, 'ran out' in June 2013. In other words you don't have a current E* score stamped a confirmed by E*. This actually doesn't matter so much as an SEP can be used. Your problem may be that you will need to have a CURRENT SEP and this can only be created with CURRENT data...you can't go back in E* and create an SEP using data from two or three months ago.
Nelina Loiselle
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October 21, 2013 - 11:49 am
Thanks Barry! However our Energy start award date was actually in April, 2013. So I believe we can still use our 2012 Energy Star certificate since it is valid for 12 months from award date.