[Bldg-sim] Spam:Re: EPact 2005 tax savings

[James Hansen]

Carol,

I removed your cc: list and most of the email chain to save on
space/spam.

I had a couple follow up questions that I was hoping someone could
answer.  It was interesting to read that Owners do not actually have to
submit ANYTHING when they take this tax credit.  The documentation for
EPAct mentions that the Owner just needs to keep the long list of
documentation requirements for any future reference (tax audit?).  With
that in mind:

1)  Has anyone ever had a client who DID get requested by the IRS to
submit the EPAct documentation?
2)  Those that have:  were you ever called out for incorrectly using
eQuest?
3)  Has anyone ever had luck claiming that eQuest is simply a GUI to
manipulate DOE2.1 code (particularly those of us that still do a lot of
the programming in notepad)?

Hope you don't mind me tagging onto your email to ask these questions.
And I hope it doesn't look like I'm trying to "swindle" the Federal
Government by using eQuest.  I'm just curious how in depth the review is
for EPAct.  If building Owners can save tens of thousands of dollars a
year, it would seem to be in the Federal Government's best interest to
review carefully.

Oh, and FWIW, I use v3.61

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-----Original Message-----
From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Carol
Gardner
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:36 PM
To: McGuire, Mark R.
Cc: EFranconi at archenergy.com; DGoldstein at nrdc.org; Sam Mason; Brantley
Caleb; Jay Keazer; BLDG-SIM at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] Spam:Re: EPact 2005 tax savings

Hi Mark et al,

Sorry to take while getting back to you, this required a little 
investigation. The eQUEST team is busily working on the submittal for 
the 3-63 version of eQUEST an official version which is scheduled to be 
released soon. This will not mean that the previous versions of eQUEST 
will be approved for use for EPAct, however, so it would be good to know

what version of eQUEST people are using most often. If anyone is 
interested in moving this forward send me an email and let me know what 
version you are using. Feel free to send it to me at gems at spiritone.com 
so this site doesn't get inundated with responses.

Carol

McGuire, Mark R. wrote:
> Carol,
>
> Do you have any timeline as to when eQUEST will be on the qualified
> software list?  We too use eQUEST for most of our building energy
> simulation work.  I have a project where we modeled a customer's new
> building in eQUEST to meet NYSERDA New Construction Program and LEED
> EAc1 requirements.  They decided to file for the federal tax deduction
> after we completed our modeling and I had to tell them that eQUEST is
> not on the list, so we are now looking at using DOE-2.1E unless eQUEST
> is added to the list soon.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
> Mark R. McGuire, P.E.
> LEED Accredited Professional
> Senior Engineer/Program Manager
> SAIC
> 6390 Fly Road
> East Syracuse, NY  13057
> Phone:  (315) 437-1869 ext. 203
> Fax:  (315) 437-1866
> E-mail:  mcguiremar at saic.com 

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