Our Project is an industrial production building with big heat presses for carbon fiber parts.
We are in an early stage and we estimated that about 75 % of the energy costs will be related to the production process. Only 25% are caused by the building itself.

Now EAp2 says that for baseline case the default process energy cost is set to 25%. This would mean that my baseline case would sum up to about 50% of my energy costs. The result of this would be that we have to save about 60% of our needed energy (energy costs) to reach EAp2. It also means that even with a really efficient building envelope and HVAC etc we can only influence 3% of the overall energy consumption.

In the end we would more or less certify the process and not the building. Or even worse couldn’t reach certification at all. That can’t be the original intent of this credit, can it?

Q: Is that interpretation correct or can we calculate the energy savings based on 100% of the energy costs.