According to the LEED Credit EA Advanced Energy Metering it is mandatory to “install advanced energy metering for… any individual energy end uses that represent 10% or more of the total annual consumption of the building”.

Typically, in small service buildings, lighting and other small loads (e.g., plug loads) of each building zone share the same switchboard. Segregation lighting from other small loads energy use requires the installation of energy meters in small branches, with very low energy uses, leading to an extreme granularity and overwhelming amount of information.

Is it possible to comply with this credit metering each switchboard feeding only lighting and other small loads (i.e., measuring lighting together with other small loads), even each of these loads represents more than 10% of the switchboard?