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EBOM-2009 EAp2: Minimum Energy Efficiency Performance
I am working on a project in a single tenant office building that has a kitchen/cafeteria run by a third party and that takes up less than 10% of the facility. I want to have a submeter installed and then to exclude the energy usage from this space type. Is it as simple as having a meter installed and then subtracting out their usage from the utility bills? Are there any common misteps to be concerned about?
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Christopher Schaffner
CEO & FounderThe Green Engineer
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August 9, 2010 - 8:31 pm
It's that simple. Ideally you add the submeter before your performance period, so you can subtract out accurate data.
Jenny Carney
Vice PresidentWSP
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August 11, 2010 - 2:32 pm
Petros, Does this cafeteria serve the regular building occupants? You may want to check with Energy Star directly to see if they would sanction the exclusion of this energy, since cafeterias are commonly present in office buildings, and it's not clear to me how this would fit with their benchmarking rules. Particularly since there is only one tenant in this building, it would be hard to make the case that the cafeteria is under separate control (even if a third-party is contracted to run it, it sounds like it is in the service of the sole tenant).