Which Energy Price for a project outside the US

Tatjana Ernst

LEED AP; Dipl.-Ing.

Scholze-Lava Consulting GmbH

LEEDuser Basic Member

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February 8, 2011

Hi everyone, i am wondering if we can use the energy prices from the eia.doe.gov (US-Prices) although our project is in Europe? We don´t really understand the Site 273 of the Reference Guide. thank you very much Tatjana

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Nicolas Galiotto

Owner

BuildGreen.dk

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Wed, 02/09/2011 - 13:28

Hi Tatjana, Cannot you just ask the energy supplier or your client for the rates applied to that building? If not I would say you must choose the local advised or average energy rates (i.e. Germany in your case). The most important though is to use the same rates for both the proposed and the Baseline building. Kind regards, Nicolas

Tatjana Ernst

LEED AP; Dipl.-Ing.

Scholze-Lava Consulting GmbH

LEEDuser Basic Member

41 thumbs up

Wed, 02/09/2011 - 14:59

Hi Nicolas, thanks for answering. The problem is we have a contract with an energy supplier and the price is separated in standing charge/base price + unit charge. As we have no influence of the standing charge the energy cost savings are very very little, because the standing charge is very high. It seems to me that the prices from US are only unit charges this means if we use the US price we save incredible more energy cost saving. i think it is quite unfair. We have no chance to influence the prices. Do you think it is possible only to use the unit charge?