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Ben Stanley
WSP - Built Ecology
Senior Sustainability Manager
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My issue with this LEED Zero
Bill Swanson
Sr. Electrical EngineerFeyen Zylstra
LEEDuser Expert
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April 3, 2019 - 8:54 am
My issue with this LEED Zero Energy program is the same with the original CaGBC version. Any Existing building can rubber stamp and claim "Zero Energy".
- New buildings have to achieve LEED certification. Existing buildings just have to register for LEED O+M.
- There is no minimum standard of energy reduction. This should require significant energy reductions. To qualify for this standard a building should be down near 30 EUI.
- This allows normal wasteful construction, but they just write a check for renewable energy credits for 12 months. An adder of about 10% on the energy bill.