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Tenant Annual Site Energy Determination

For Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 percent of tenant annual site energy

Tenant annual site energy includes all electricity and fuel used within the project boundary, all electricity and fuel for systems exclusively serving the project space, and all district energy supplied from outside of the project boundary directly to the project space.

Include all project lighting and plug and process energy use.

  • Include all electricity and fuel use for HVAC and SWH systems that are wholly contained in the project boundary or exclusively serve the project space. Examples include packaged single zone rooftop systems, water source heat pumps, VRF systems, water heaters, and floor-by-floor VAV air handling units dedicated for project use.

  • Include all electricity use for components of shared HVAC systems within the project boundary, such as VAV terminal units or fan coil units.

Tenant annual site energy does not include common area use or base building energy consumption from shared systems serving tenants, such as chiller plants, boiler plants, central water heating, shared VAV air handling units, or dedicated outside air handling units.

For projects that meter their electricity and fuel use, tenant annual site energy use aligns with this usage, supporting procurement of Tier 2 or Tier 3 renewable energy through a utility green tariff.

Exclusion of energy for electric vehicle charging Exclude energy for electric vehicle charging of vehicles used for off-site transportation purposes.

Renewable energy procurement may be contractually linked to a percentage of monthly metered data for each project energy source, summing together to the renewable percent of tenant annual site energy claimed for the project, or tenant annual site energy may be estimated for the project.

ENERGY SIMULATION

Projects using energy modeling to demonstrate compliance with EAp2: Minimum Energy Efficiency must use the PBP without renewable contribution as the basis for tenant annual site energy.

  • For projects referencing the ASHRAE 90.1, Appendix G PRM, begin with the site energy consumption for the PBP without any credit for the on-site renewable energy contribution.

U.S. Green Building Council LEED v5 Reference Guide for Interior Design and Construction, April 2025 Launch Edition 188

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