51-18 Grand Avenue - data

How does 51-18 Grand Avenue - data compare with other manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 592 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 25.8 kBtu/ft² is about 75% below the average of 102.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 78% below the group average of 7.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 114,000 sq ft, it is about 30% above the average floor area of 87,732 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1930, 19 years earlier than the group's average year built (1949). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 2,372 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 67 and a site EUI of 126.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 25.8 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. 51-18 Grand Avenue - data's 25.8 kBtu/ft² across 114,000 sq ft works out to about 2.9 billion Btu (862 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. Its source EUI of 37.8 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 204,549 kWh of electricity and 22,464 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 51-18 Grand Avenue - data to report its energy use?

51-18 Grand Avenue - 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:17396148:2023). 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.