We have already submitted the certification and we have received the return review, at this point we need to activate some more points in order to reach de 40 points for the certification. Previously, the team thought in achieving the EAC4, and we asked for an offer of Green Power to Iberdrola (utility). Due the economical increase of this type of energy, we decided not to pursue this for the first review.
We are thinking now in achieving this credit, but we are not going to be able to demonstrate 3 months of performance period of green power, because we are planning in purchasing it this month. We are planning to provide for the Final Review, a commitment letter from the property and the Green Power contract of the utility that assures the minimum of 2 years of green power purchase.
Regarding the LEED Reference Guide for Green Building Operations and Maintenance it says that we can submit a commitment to purchase green power instead of a contract in this sentences: "Purchase or commit to purchasing enough off-site renewable energy or carbon offsets to satisfy the building's annual energy consumption for 2 years. Contract or commitments for future purchases can meet the remainder of the 2-year requirement?, but we will like to validate with you if this justification is enough, knowing that the performance period ended the 31st January, 2013, and we are planning to send the final review on the following 15 days.
Thank you very much
Ben Stanley
Senior Sustainability ManagerWSP - Built Ecology
LEEDuser Expert
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April 10, 2013 - 10:36 am
Patricia, because your looking at off-site renewable energy there shouldn't be any issue with your approach and we have seen a number of projects purchase green power prior to the final review in order to meet the credit.
Patricia Fuertes
April 19, 2013 - 8:32 am
Thank you very much Ben. But if I have not purschased green power during the performance period, which value do I have to enter in the column of the "Total Green Power Purchase Quantity Allotted to the Performance
Period" of the "Table EAc4-1. Green power provider summary"?
Ben Stanley
Senior Sustainability ManagerWSP - Built Ecology
LEEDuser Expert
250 thumbs up
April 19, 2013 - 10:51 am
In this case, I would enter the total amount of off-site renewable energy such that the form shows that the performance period percent of off-site renewable energy is equal to the percent of off-site renewable energy covered by the entire 2 year contract.
Alicia Villanueva
CEORevitaliza consultores
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April 24, 2013 - 12:02 pm
Our team has almost the same issue, this is for the appeal phase, since we want to increase the threshold and try to reach Gold instead of Silver.
But we are afraid our review team won´t validate if the two-year contract for off-site renewable energy is signed today and not in the performance period.
Sometimes what appears in LEED User is not necessarily linked to the GBCI.
Can anyone give some feedback? Any experience in this in the past? Have they accepted the purchase of RECs even if they are out of the performance period?
Thanks in advance.
Kathryn West
LEED AP BD+C, O+M, Green Globes ProfessionalJLL
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May 13, 2013 - 5:29 pm
what was your performance period? You may have trouble finding 2012 RECs.