Whole Building Meters

Thanks Marcus.

The review comment i received stated "confirm that whole-building gas use is metered by an advanced meter - which requires the capability to report hourly, daily, monthly, and annual energy use".

It's probably pretty simple "whole building energy sources must include advanced energy metering". 

I would expect the project team would need to include the advanced meter since utility-provided meters are probably not that granular.

In my experience utilities do not allow owners to provide their own meters (maybe they don't trust them). and utility supplied meters are set up to obtain the info needed by the utility so that billings can be generated per their schedule. Monthly energy use is the typical time-capture of info, and definately not hourly. 

So it appears that to obtain the credit a second owner-supplied advanced meter would be required to be installed where whole building electricity / gas enter the project. (should account for building and site energy use) 

My opinion, advanced metering at the whole-building level is kinda overkill if you are already advanced metering each 10%+ energy end uses. 

circling back on this one...i just read this in the LEED reference guide:

The Further Explanation section states: "Low data granularity, such as with whole-building energy data, will not help a building operator understand or identify sources of anomalies in energy consumption and does not meet the intent of this credit."

So the credit requires whole building energy end uses to be provided with advanced energy meters...but then goes on to state that whole building is low granularity and does not meet the intent of the credit. 

think i might chat with the LEED development folks to see if the 'whole building' advanced energy meter requirement can be removed OR at the very least, better author this.