Renaissance New York Hotel Chelsea

How does Renaissance New York Hotel Chelsea compare with other hotel buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 970 hotel buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Renaissance New York Hotel Chelsea's ENERGY STAR score of 33 compares with an average of 50 across the 853 that report a score; it scores higher than 33% of them and lower than 67%. Its site EUI of 97.6 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 94.3 kBtu/ft². Its emissions intensity of 8.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 10% above the group average of 7.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 185,831 sq ft, it is about 35% above the average floor area of 137,256 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2019, 44 years later than the group's average year built (1975). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 33 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 33 means the building performs better than about 33% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 33 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 42 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. Renaissance New York Hotel Chelsea's 97.6 kBtu/ft² across 185,831 sq ft works out to about 18.1 billion Btu (5,315 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 199.0 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 3,007,045 kWh of electricity, 78,680 therms of natural gas and 26,525 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires Renaissance New York Hotel Chelsea to report its energy use?

Renaissance New York Hotel Chelsea 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 2024 disclosure (source record nyc:58831392:2024). 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.