631 West 51st Street AKA 630 West 52nd Street

How does 631 West 51st Street AKA 630 West 52nd Street compare with other self-storage facility buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 481 self-storage facility buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 86.6 kBtu/ft² is about 308% above the average of 21.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 7.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 329% above the group average of 1.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 36,184 sq ft, it is about 63% below the average floor area of 98,872 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2008, 25 years later than the group's average year built (1983). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,050 self-storage facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 75 and a site EUI of 9.4 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 86.6 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. 631 West 51st Street AKA 630 West 52nd Street's 86.6 kBtu/ft² across 36,184 sq ft works out to about 3.1 billion Btu (918 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. Its source EUI of 242.5 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 918,356 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires 631 West 51st Street AKA 630 West 52nd Street to report its energy use?

631 West 51st Street AKA 630 West 52nd Street 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 2022 disclosure (source record nyc:15565166:2022). 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.