My EBOM project office building is interested in particiapating in the local power company's "Green Power Provider" program. Program pays customers back for power generated and sent to the "grid". In our case, we were planning to install PV array on-site. Question: if Project is receiving money back instead of getting to use the actual "power" produced, are we eligible for the EAc. 4 points? We have to submeter for program, so we would know annual amount of power produced onsite. It would just help lower our electric bills by dollar amount instead of kWh amount. Here is language from credit that confused me: "For on-site renewable energy that is claimed for LEED 2009 for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance credit, the associated environmental attributes must be retained or retired and cannot be sold."
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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December 16, 2011 - 11:07 pm
Janna, it is typical for this type of program to purchase RECs from the onsite power installation, thus your project would be selling the environmental attributes and you couldn't aplply this energy to the credit.