215 West 75th Street - data

How does 215 West 75th Street - data compare with other mixed use property buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 395 mixed use property buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 27.1 kBtu/ft² is about 71% below the average of 92.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 65% below the group average of 7.9 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 111,600 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 224,815 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1924, 33 years earlier than the group's average year built (1958). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,212 mixed use property buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 69 and a site EUI of 79.8 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 27.1 kBtu/ft² mean?

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. 215 West 75th Street - data's 27.1 kBtu/ft² across 111,600 sq ft works out to about 3 billion Btu (886 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. Its source EUI of 71.1 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 797,771 kWh of electricity and 2,983 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 215 West 75th Street - data to report its energy use?

215 West 75th Street - data reports under Local Law 84 (LL84), the legal basis of New York City's Energy and Water Data Disclosure program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2023 disclosure (source record nyc:21620405:2023). Under Local Law 97, buildings over 25,000 sq ft face carbon caps with fines of $268 per metric ton of CO₂e over the limit, phasing in from 2024.