Jetro Restaurant Depot

How does Jetro Restaurant Depot compare with other wholesale club/supercenter buildings in Chicago?

The latest disclosures cover 10 wholesale club/supercenter buildings in Chicago, out of 3,852 buildings citywide. Jetro Restaurant Depot's ENERGY STAR score of 2 compares with an average of 60 across the 9 that report a score; it scores higher than 0% of them and lower than 89%. Its site EUI of 125.6 kBtu/ft² is about 64% above the average of 76.8 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 11.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 44% above the group average of 8.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 151,161 sq ft, it is about 20% above the average floor area of 126,360 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1950, 41 years earlier than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 482 wholesale club/supercenter buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 79.1 kBtu/ft².

How has Jetro Restaurant Depot's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 7 Chicago disclosures for Jetro Restaurant Depot, covering report years 2016–2022. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 31 in 2016 to 2 in 2022 (-29 points); its best year on file was 2017, at 38. Site EUI moved from 140.5 kBtu/ft² (2016) to 125.6 kBtu/ft² (2022), a 11% decrease. Reported emissions went from 2,600 tCO₂e to 1,745 tCO₂e over the same span (down 33%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 2 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 2 means the building performs better than about 2% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 2 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 73 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In Chicago, 35% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. Jetro Restaurant Depot's 125.6 kBtu/ft² across 151,161 sq ft works out to about 19 billion Btu (5,564 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. Its source EUI of 240.4 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 2,744,879 kWh of electricity and 96,272 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Jetro Restaurant Depot to report its energy use?

Jetro Restaurant Depot reports under the Building Energy Use Benchmarking Ordinance, the legal basis of the Chicago Energy Benchmarking program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2022 disclosure (source record chicago:118140:2022). Covered buildings that fail to benchmark and report face fines of up to $100 plus $25 per day of violation under the ordinance.