About this Dataset

Chicago Energy Benchmarking

The Chicago Building Energy Use Benchmarking Ordinance calls on existing municipal, commercial, and residential buildings larger than 50,000 square feet to track whole-building energy use, report to the City annually, and verify data accuracy every three years. The law, which was phased in from 2014-2017, covers less than 1% of Chicago’s buildings, which account for approximately 20% of total energy used by all buildings. For more details, including ordinance text, rules and regulations, and timing, please visit www.CityofChicago.org/EnergyBenchmarking

The ordinance authorizes the City to share property-specific information with the public, beginning with the second year in which a building is required to comply.

The dataset represents self-reported and publicly-available property information by calendar year. Please note that the "Data Year" column refers to the year to which the data apply, not the year in which they were reported. That column and filtered views under "Related Content" can be used to isolate specific years.
Organization: City of Chicago
Last updated: 2020-11-10T16:55:36.469796
Tags: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, benchmarks, buildings, energy, sustainability

Tables

Table 1

@usgov.city_of_chicago_chicago_energy_benchmarking.table_1

2.1 MB
28,329 rows
30 columns

CREATE TABLE table_1 (
  "data_year" BIGINT,
  "id" BIGINT,
  "property_name" VARCHAR,
  "reporting_status" VARCHAR,
  "address" VARCHAR,
  "zip_code" VARCHAR,
  "chicago_energy_rating" DOUBLE,
  "exempt_from_chicago_energy_rating" VARCHAR,
  "community_area" VARCHAR,
  "primary_property_type" VARCHAR,
  "gross_floor_area_buildings_sq_ft" DOUBLE  -- Gross Floor Area - Buildings (sq Ft),
  "year_built" DOUBLE,
  "n__of_buildings" DOUBLE  -- # Of Buildings,
  "water_use_kgal" DOUBLE  -- Water Use (kGal),
  "energy_star_score" DOUBLE,
  "electricity_use_kbtu" DOUBLE  -- Electricity Use (kBtu),
  "natural_gas_use_kbtu" DOUBLE  -- Natural Gas Use (kBtu),
  "district_steam_use_kbtu" DOUBLE  -- District Steam Use (kBtu),
  "district_chilled_water_use_kbtu" DOUBLE  -- District Chilled Water Use (kBtu),
  "all_other_fuel_use_kbtu" DOUBLE  -- All Other Fuel Use (kBtu),
  "site_eui_kbtu_sq_ft" DOUBLE  -- Site EUI (kBtu/sq Ft),
  "source_eui_kbtu_sq_ft" DOUBLE  -- Source EUI (kBtu/sq Ft),
  "weather_normalized_site_eui_kbtu_sq_ft" DOUBLE  -- Weather Normalized Site EUI (kBtu/sq Ft),
  "weather_normalized_source_eui_kbtu_sq_ft" DOUBLE  -- Weather Normalized Source EUI (kBtu/sq Ft),
  "total_ghg_emissions_metric_tons_co2e" DOUBLE  -- Total GHG Emissions (Metric Tons CO2e),
  "ghg_intensity_kg_co2e_sq_ft" DOUBLE  -- GHG Intensity (kg CO2e/sq Ft),
  "latitude" DOUBLE,
  "longitude" DOUBLE,
  "location" VARCHAR,
  "row_id" VARCHAR
);