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NC-v4 EAp1:Fundamental commissioning and verification

Retro-commission an existing PV array?

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Deborah Lucking
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Fentress Architects
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Our project is a county-owned building which will utilize renewable energy from an existing, adjacent, county-owned PV farm. We are pursuing both Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning credits; are we required to retro-commission the existing PV system?

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Dan Forino
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Horizon Engineering Associates
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Wed, 05/16/2018 - 13:05

My interpretation is that this would fall into the "out of project boundary, off campus, partial use for your project (not whole PV array allocated to you), but passing over all environmental attributes associated with this percentage of energy usage" pg 434 of the LEEDv4 user manual flow chart.  In this case its the same if you were purchasing this renewable energy from a 3rd party (not county owned), which they would not require retro-cx of the existing PV system.  As a Cx Provider - I would not include it in my SOW to meet the minimum requirements of the credit.  

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