Rating System

LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.0

Inquiry

The Office of Operations of this Federal Agency is currently procuring 10% of its electricity from Green-e certified renewable energy sources. Our electric purchases are through a GSA electric services contract with PEPCO Services. The contract term was modified to provide green power for 15 months (remainder of original contract term). The Office of Operations intends to renew the green power purchases if there are no substantial increases in cost or any policy changes that would discourage green power purchases. Because our electric meters are an aggregate of three entire buildings, there is no way to separate the portion of green power used by the current LEED-registered Phase of the South Building Modernization. The long-range goal is to LEED-certify the entire South Building, Phase by Phase. So far approximately 20% of the South Building has been or is in the process of being modernized. For accounting purposes, we are assuming that the green power is only going to those first three Phases of the South Building for which we are currently attempting LEED-certification.