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EBOM-2009 EAc4:On-Site and Off-Site Renewable Energy

Off-site PV farm financed by property owner

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Dricka Brown Thobois
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Ameresco (formerly Chelsea Group)
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I am working with a property who is going for LEED EBOM recertification.  The property is owned by a large business that has financed, owns, and maintains, a very large PV farm on the west side of Oahu.  The building going for LEED recertification, is also located on the west side of the island.  As this company has paid for the development of a PV farm offsite from the LEED project site, it seems fair that they should be able to submit this information and achieve points under EAc4 EBOMv2009.  Do you believe GBCI will accept this, versus making the property purchase RECs?   

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Charles Nepps
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Mon, 07/23/2018 - 20:15

Unless you can demonstrate the project is actually using the power generated at the PV farm, I think it will be a tough sell. I assume the PV farm is a separate business that simple sells power back to HECO, and although it technically offsets some of the power generated from oil (and trash) I'm not sure you can demonstrate the project directly benefits from it. That being said, it's probably worth asking the USGBC the question.

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