Hi all
we are doing a international project outside US. when we started to prepare for this credit we used the energy star portfolio to get a rating for project building. we filled in all the required information in energy star portfolio and it generated automatically a rating for it. However what bothers us right now is that even though we got a rating for it, it showed a message ** not eligible : Facility must be located in United States and or one of its territories under the column Eligibility for Energy Star in the upper right table named General information
What I undertood from the begninng was that even though the project building was not qualified to apply for a Energy Star certificate due to the fact that it is located outside US, project building can still use Energy star Portfolio for benchmarking and procuring this credit according to case 1 described in the LEED reference Guide for E&B..
Am I still right about this ? Could anyone here confirm me that we can continue to apply energy star portfolio for a rating in line with case 1 no matter where the building is located as long as the building is comprised of ratable spaces. ? I really appreciate if some of you can answer my question!!!!!
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5906 thumbs up
October 19, 2012 - 10:39 am
It appears as if you can. See the most recent global ACPs here - https://new.usgbc.org/resources/leed-existing-buildings-global-acp-redli...
Sofia Otterheim
October 22, 2012 - 7:41 am
Thank you for your response.
In other words, is it correct that we can obtain an Energy Star Rating from Energy Star Portfolio Manager Tool (and use it for LEED purposes) without being eligible for an Energy Star Certification?
Also, our project was registered in February 2012 which means that the most recent ACP which you refer to (from July 2012) was not applicable yet. However, they both say case 1 must be used if an Energy Star Rating can be obtained. Correct?
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5906 thumbs up
October 22, 2012 - 10:38 am
Correct - even US based EBOM projects are not required to obtain Energy Star certification.
The way LEED works is projects can always use the latest version and interpretations. They are only required to do so for information released prior to their registration date.
You can use case 1.