Green Options » LEED for neighborhood 2009 http://greenoptions.com/tag/leed-for-neighborhood-2009 Posts tagged 'LEED for neighborhood 2009' Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en LEED To Rate Solar-Powering Your City: Worthless http://cleantechnica.com/2008/11/24/leed-to-rate-solar-powering-your-city-worthless/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/11/24/leed-to-rate-solar-powering-your-city-worthless/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:38:42 +0000 Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2008/11/24/leed-to-rate-solar-powering-your-city-worthless/ Or they will… unless you weigh in: California has a requirement that all new buildings be zero carbon by 2020; every electron a building uses must come from power generated onsite. Obama plans the same requirement nationwide by 2030.

So you would think that to meet their new neighborhood certification, on-site renewable energy would be a LEED requirement, not just an option. But it won’t be. What’s worse, it will be worth a measly 3 points out of the total 110 possible points to get LEED certification.  But you can change that.

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