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EBOM-2009 EAp2:Minimum Energy Efficiency Performance

Include fuel oil usage from emergency generators?

Jessica Hawley

Sustainability Consultant

LEEDuser Basic Member

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October 25, 2012

On past LEED EBOM Certifications, GBCI has required us to input fuel oil used in our emergency generators. So we did. But we recently posed this question to EnergyStar and got the following response: Ticket Information: Ticket #: 23002-335420 Date Created: 6/27/2012 11:57 AM EDT Summary: [PM Feedback] Question: Comments/Issue: Do we need to account for fuel oil used by back up generators? ***************** RESPONSE ********************** Dear [ ], Thank you for contacting us. Fuel oil used for safety generators only, can be excluded from your energy consumption. You can select "no" in Portfolio Manager for backup generators fuel used. If you have any other questions, please contact buildings@energystar.gov. Thank you, Cara Pearson ENERGY STAR Support I will include this documentation of future projects, but wanted to share it here in the hopes that GBCI will see this and stop asking for this info.

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