Non-electric and electric energy use for the Renewable Energy credit version 4.1

Ana Maria Escobar Cardenas

Lemay

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Canada

July 22, 2020

Hello!

I am doing a substitution of the Renewable Energy (Green Power) credit to version 4.1 for a Commercial Interior project.
I used TABLE 2. CBECS building energy intensity to determine the total energy consumption because I am using the prescriptive path for the minimum energy performance.

Is not clear for me if I should only use the annual electric energy for the Green-e energy and the non-electric energy for the carbon offsets as in the guide 4.1 is not really specified.

Thank you for your help!

Ana

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Marcus Sheffer

LEED Fellow

7group / Energy Opportunities

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Fri, 07/24/2020 - 18:08

If you have both fuels then yes.

Boone Jones

Director of Business Development

Renewable Choice Energy

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Tue, 09/15/2020 - 17:24

Hello Ana Maria. Scope 2 emissions associated with electricy use and Scope 1 emissions from non-electric energy use need to be addressed with RECs and/or carbon offsets to secure LEED Points under v4.1 Renewable Energy Credit guidelines. If the facility is 100% electric use the Total Energy Consumption column in the CBECS Table to calculate electricity use for both RECs and/or carbon offsets.