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Wed, 07/21/2010 - 18:45

Heidi, Energy Star's rules on this changed last year...now you need to include electricity from onsite solar or wind in your benchmarking, which means that they don't help you to meet the performance threshold. Here's a document from EPA with more detail about this change: http://www.energystar.gov/ia/business/evaluate_performance/RenewableEnergyFAQs.pdf

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