NC v4.1 talks about offsetting a percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. How are GHG's calculated? For example, utilities and regional grids have different carbon footprints depending on their generation mix. Is there a national average that is used for the carbon emissions for electricity or are the emissions calculations more specific to where the project is located?
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Aya El-Khouly
Entegrity Partners4 thumbs up
September 18, 2020 - 9:54 am
Jeff - Have you recieved any direction on how the GHG's are calculated yet?
Jeff Forward
PrincipalForward Thinking Consultants, LLC
3 thumbs up
September 18, 2020 - 10:36 am
No, or at least not that I can find.
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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September 18, 2020 - 3:52 pm
Where the project is located. Use the US EPA regional grid mix coefficients ideally modled hourly. US EPA's AVoided Emissions and geneRation Tool (AVERT) provides hourly electricity emissions data for 10 grid regions in the U.S. based on historical patterns of actual generation. This credit references the Minimum Energy Performance credit. See page 110 in this document for more details. https://www.usgbc.org/leed/v41#bdc