Dear All,
for an Italian project I need to assess the equivalency between Guarantee of Origin issued by a National energy Authority (GSE) and the Green-e standard. First of all, I'd like to ask if the issue has already been tackled and if an official document, stating the equivalency, has already been draft. I couldn't find it, though. Since the Italian GoO certificate have been regulated according to the European Directive 2009/28/EC, has the issue already been considered at a European level? Is it part of the ACPs mentioned by Marcus?
If not the case, is the Green-e Energy Standard v2.3, as reported in the credit description, still the reference standard or the new version 2.4 should be employed?
Thank you in advance for any comment and suggestion.
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Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5916 thumbs up
October 15, 2014 - 8:59 am
It could be part of the ACPs. I am guessing that they will be announced at Greenbuild next week so check the USGBC week site in a week or two.
Products must use the latest version of the Green-e standard. Certified products under either version would qualify so you could use either to demonstrate equivalency.
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Bioconstruccion & Energia Alternativa78 thumbs up
October 17, 2014 - 1:11 pm
Who is responsible or how can we know if a eolic project meets Green-e certified equivalency?
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5916 thumbs up
November 2, 2014 - 6:13 pm
Unless another standard gets adopted it is the project team's responsibility to demonstrate equivalency.
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5916 thumbs up
November 2, 2014 - 6:53 pm
The European ACPs were released a couple of weeks ago.
http://www.usgbc.org/resources/leed-2009-bdc-supplemental-reference-guid...
Projects in Europe may use EKO Energy or Guarantees of Origin (GOs)
with additional parameters. More details in the RG supplement in the link above.