Dear All,
Good Day !
We have used agricultural waste - rice husk as biofuel in Steam boiler. We have enough documents to claim it in renewable energy such as Harvested with in 25 mile and 10 Yrs Contract, Pollution control norms compliance and the rice husk is burned / diverted to landfill if not used in here
We get the rice husk in free of cost so we have entered thermal energy consumption (Steam consumption / Rice Husk Energy ) in EA p2 and the rice husk cost as zero in both case.
However, We have natural gas backup, Can we document the cost of natural gas in baseline case and Ricehusk in Design case (Fuel Switching option)
Rice husk is a form of renewable energy (biofuel – agricultural waste) and we want to claim the advantage of renewable energy in EACR2.
Can we consider the cost per kWh of natural gas for rise husk while considering it in EACR2 and take the advantage accordingly?
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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January 7, 2019 - 1:14 pm
Yes. You can model gas in the baseline system and account for the free biofuel in the proposed. I am not sure how you would model the rice husks in the proposed case? You could model gas in the proposed and then just zero out the cost in the renewables section of the prerequisite form.