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How do we determine what which energy conservation measures identified in the ASHRAE Level II audit are low-cost, and therefore have to be implemented under this credit?

We have many improvements that meet the 18-month payback definition of low-cost, but together they add up to a lot of money. We just don’t have the budget to implement these projects during our performance period. What can we do?

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EBOM-2009 EAc2.2:Existing Building Commissioning—Implementation

Capitol Cost ECMs

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Robert Calloway
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When submitting the reports for a LEED RCx project, one of the reports is for Capital Cost Energy Conservation Measures. Typically we recommend items to be implemented that have a payback of under 10 yrs. Currently the building owner had implemented our one recommendation and we are left with No capital cost measures. Is it a requirement (for approval purposes) to have a report for Capital Cost Energy Conservation Measures? In another section of our report titled ‘Measured Evaluated but not Recommended’ we have recommended two items that each have a payback of over 20 years. If these items are recommended in lieu of items with a lesser pay back, they will skew the calculated total cost and energy savings throughout the report. Would it be preferred to see these in the Capital Cost section or would it be OK to leave them separate and not include a Capital Cost report in the submission of this project. Any assistance on this will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Wed, 04/10/2013 - 18:13

Hi Robert Yes, it is required to have a list of capital improvement measures, and there is no minimum required number of capital improvement measures - in other words, if you only find one measure, that's ok! But the trick here is to also identify low/no cost measures (those with a very short payback or low/no cost for implementation, or O&M measures), that the team can implement that are outside of the capital improvement measures. For the section titled ‘Measured Evaluated but not Recommended’, these would be considered "rejected measures" and kept separate.
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Wed, 04/10/2013 - 18:53

Hannah, Thanks for the quick response! We have approximately 6 Low cost/No cost measures in our report, but no measures that fit in the category of ‘Capital costs’. There are no items I can think of at this time to include for the report! If it is a requirement, I can try to think of a capital cost measure. Thanks,

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