30 Wall St - 30 Wall St, New York, NY 10005

How does 30 Wall St - 30 Wall St, New York, NY 10005 compare with other office buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 3,384 office buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. 30 Wall St - 30 Wall St, New York, NY 10005's ENERGY STAR score of 60 compares with an average of 72 across the 2,519 that report a score; it scores higher than 23% of them and lower than 75%. Its site EUI of 71.2 kBtu/ft² is about 10% above the average of 64.5 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 6.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 17% above the group average of 5.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 108,663 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 205,440 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1919, 21 years earlier than the group's average year built (1940). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 15,264 office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 59.3 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 60 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 60 means the building performs better than about 60% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 60 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 15 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In New York City, 43% 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. 30 Wall St - 30 Wall St, New York, NY 10005's 71.2 kBtu/ft² across 108,663 sq ft works out to about 7.7 billion Btu (2,267 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. Its source EUI of 165.4 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 1,589,870 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires 30 Wall St - 30 Wall St, New York, NY 10005 to report its energy use?

30 Wall St - 30 Wall St, New York, NY 10005 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:29267652:2023). 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.