Electrify Chicago
An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan
,
69% of Chicago's emissions come from buildings, making
building emissions our biggest challenge and our biggest opportunity as a city
to tackle climate change. At Electrify Chicago, we showcase building performance using
publicly available data supplemented by community-submitted photographs and building
owners.
Start by looking at Chicago's buildings with the highest greenhouse gas intensity i.e. emissions per square foot. Large, efficient, buildings can perform much better than very inefficient small buildings on this metric.
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Chicago Buildings by Greenhouse Gas Intensity
Note: Data includes large Chicago buildings with data from 2022, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Note: This data only includes buildings whose emissions are reported
under the
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Ordinance. According to the City “As of 2016,
this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than
50,000 square feet.” This dataset is also then filtered to only buildings with
reported emissions > 1,000 metric tons CO2 equivalent.
The latest year of data is from 2022, but we update the site regularly when new data is available, and some buildings may have failed to report that year, and only have older data available.
| Property Name / address | Primary Property Type |
Greenhouse Gas Intensity (kg CO2 eq./sqft) |
Total Greenhouse Emissions (metric tons CO2 eq.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Chess Lofts Condominium
🕰️
320 E 21st St
| Multifamily Housing | 9.6 kg/sqft  | 857 tons  |
|
Renee Granville-Grossman Residential Commons
(UChicago)
6031 S Ellis Ave
| Residence Hall/Dormitory | 9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
| 3,247 tons
Highest 12%
|
|
Perspectives Charter Schools - Math & Science Academy
🕰️
3663 S Wabash Ave
| K-12 School | 9.6 kg/sqft | 674 tons |
|
Seton Hall
(DePaul)
2325 N Sheffield Ave
| College/University | 9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
| 480 tons
Lowest 24%
|
|
The Scott Residences
211 W Scott St
| Multifamily Housing | 9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
| 695 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
Dawson Technical Institute
🕰️
3901 S State St
| College/University | 9.6 kg/sqft | 1,426 tons |
|
Hotel Lincoln
1816 N CLARK ST
| Hotel | 9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
| 925 tons
Highest 48%
|
|
Reside at Belmont Harbor
🕰️
426 W BELMONT AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 9.6 kg/sqft | 567 tons |
|
2140 N LINCOLN PARK West
🕰️
2140 N LINCOLN PARK West
| Multifamily Housing | 9.6 kg/sqft | 498 tons |
|
F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen & Associates, LLC
8734 W Catalpa
| Office | 9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
| 1,080 tons
Highest 42%
|
|
618 S Michigan Ave
618 S Michigan Ave
| College/University | 9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
| 878 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
Lake Meadows 7
400 E 33rd St
| Multifamily Housing | 9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
| 2,923 tons
Highest 14%
|
|
Renaissance Chicago Downtown
1 W Wacker Dr
| Hotel | 9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
| 5,141 tons
Highest 7%
|
|
East West University - The Loftrium
815 823 S WABASH AVE
| Office | 9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
| 918 tons
Highest 48%
|
|
Woodbridge Nursing Pavilion, Ltd
🕰️
2242 N Kedzie Blvd
| Senior Living Community | 9.6 kg/sqft | 540 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data