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We will have cogeneration onsite. Do the credit requirements apply to all electricity used onsite, or only that which is purchased from the grid?

My project is not located in the U.S. Should I still use the emissions factors from the Energy Star program listed in the Reference Guide, or find something closer to home?

My project is located in the U.S. Can I buy green power or offsets from another part of the world?

Can I still earn this credit through green power or RECs alone?

Do onsite renewables count?

The owner has purchased RECs for a percentage of energy use of its whole portfolio of buildings, or whole campus. Can we earn this credit for a single LEED building with this purchase?

The owner purchased RECs / carbon offsets based on an earlier prediction, but our energy model is now showing that we are just a little short of the credit threshold. What should we do?

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CI-v4 EAc6:Green power and carbon offsets

REC Purchase Timing

Jeffrey Palmer

Sustainability Project Manager

JLL

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Project location :

U.S. and Canada

April 21, 2021

Due to REC pricing violitility it may make sense to purchase the credits earlier in the project. Can RECs be purchased before the LEED project is registered? Given the contract retires the correct amount of RECs over the 5 year period. Is there a window that LEED requires the RECs to be purchased during the project?

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Marcus Sheffer

LEED Fellow

7group / Energy Opportunities

LEEDuser Expert

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Fri, 04/30/2021 - 19:44

You can't apply old RECs to a project. RECs need to correspond with the occupancy phase of the building.

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