Hi,
I'm a french engineer and I'm wondering if the SEP considers the region of the study.
Indeed my site is in France, thus does the GHG emissions result use french emission factor ?
Same question with the national median comparison.
Thank you for your answers.
Florian
Hannah Bronfman
Senior Associate99 thumbs up
November 7, 2013 - 4:21 pm
Hi Florian
Energy Star has multi-national partners, and France is one of these partners. My understanding is that these partners use local emission factors and national median comparisons. I would check to see if Energy Star has your project's city within their database to verify.
Thanks,
Hannah
Michael Smithing
Director - Green Building AdvisoryColliers International Ltd.
304 thumbs up
November 8, 2013 - 2:31 am
I believe that I saw guidance (don't remember exactly where , probably Energy Star help) indicating that Energy Star uses the default US emissions to calculate GHG emissions for international projects. I've used their numbers successfully to document this credit. I've recently found reliable numbers for Hungary and will include those - alongside the US baseline - in my upcoming submission.
I imagine France will be much lower than the US because of the high percentage of nuclear in the energy mix.