How can this credit be achieved if the building is a high-rise residential building where all apartments are separately metered? This is a rental building. The owner would like to provide green power for the base building meter and recommend to tenants to purchase green power. Would he need to require that tenants get green power? If so, this would only be docuemented via a copy of the lease agreement. Any advice?
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Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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March 29, 2011 - 1:52 pm
This credit can be earned based on the modeling results for EAc1. The owner could simply purchase enough RECs to cover 35% of the projected total for two years. The cost of RECs is still pretty low and this would be the most definitive way to earn the credit.
Obviously recruiting tenants presents some logisitcal problems but would certainly have some educational value.
Lorey Flick
PartnerFlick Engineering Professionals
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March 29, 2011 - 2:01 pm
How do those RECs get transfered to the tenant? Or is the owner just purchasing something that will ultimately not be used? Could you expand on your last response?
If the owner doesn't use the portion for his two year contract, can he sell them to another user?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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March 29, 2011 - 2:06 pm
Lorey, I would not say that they get "used." They get attributed to the electricity usage for the building in those first two years. If you want to earn the LEED credit you have to buy fro the projected total, and you couldn't offload any surplus. To find out if the projection was correct, you'd have to tally up all the use from all of those apartments.... not a likely task.I think Marcus was saying that it would be nice to get tenants involved but it's not necessarily relevant to LEED compliance.
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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March 29, 2011 - 2:27 pm
A REC purchase is completely independent of the electricity purchase. They are two different but related things. Buying RECs - the environmentally beneficial aspects of green power - supports renewable energy projects outside government mandates (Renewable Portoflio Standards(RPS)). You can buy as many RECs as you wish and the quantity is not tied to your electric consumption in the market for many types of REC purchases.
Check out green-e.org for more information on green power options.
Mathew Loving
Manager, Business Development3Degrees
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September 7, 2011 - 7:44 pm
Lorey,
Many REC providers will deliver the RECs to their partners via what is called an Attestation form. This is a legal document that confirms transfer of ownership of the RECs from one party to another. Other providers may retire the RECs on their customers' behalf.
Feel free to reach out if I can answer any additional questions for you.