Electrify Chicago
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan
,
a whopping 69% of Chicago's emissions come from buildings, making it
our biggest challenge and our biggest opportunity as a city to tackle
change. At Electrify Chicago we want to showcase some of the best and worst performing
buildings in the city using publicly available data and manual annotations to add
building photographs and label multi-building owners like universities.
You can start by looking at Chicago's buildings with the highest greenhouse gas intensity - this means that they use the most energy when adjusted per unit of square foot, so big buildings could actually perform much better than very inefficient small buildings on this metric.
Legislative update! 🎉
As of late January 2024, legislation is being introduced to require new buildings use more efficient forms of water and space heating, via the Clean And Affordable Buildings Ordinance (CABO), which will reduce the number of highly polluting and inefficient that end up on this site.
If you're in Chicago,
write to your alderman to support the CABO!
Chicago Buildings by Greenhouse Gas Intensity
Note: Data only includes large Chicago buildings from 2021, 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.
This data is also from 2021, but when new benchmark data is available, we'll update the site.
| Property Name / address | Primary Property Type |
Greenhouse Gas Intensity (kg CO2 eq./sqft) |
Total Greenhouse Emissions (metric tons CO2 eq.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
GX Property Owner LLC
2545 W Diversey Ave
| Office | 7.1 kg/sqft 
Highest 39%
| 1,612 tons
Highest 29%
|
|
65 E Scott
65 E SCOTT ST
| Multifamily Housing | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 1,545 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
(IL323)- Two River Place
720 N Larrabee St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 1,856 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
Park Community Church
1001 N Crosby
| Worship Facility | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 462 tons 
Lowest 23%
|
|
N002301-CHICAGO (83RD & STEWART) IL
8411 S HOLLAND RD
| Retail Store | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 821 tons
Lowest 47%
|
|
Wave Lakeview
420 W BELMONT AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 1,541 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
Cranston Condo
6927 6939 S CRANDON AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 788 tons
Lowest 46%
|
|
Delaware III LLC
211 213 E DELAWARE PL
| Multifamily Housing | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 406 tons
Lowest 18%
|
|
1330 N. Dearborn Apartments
1330 N DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 515 tons
Lowest 28%
|
|
421-31 Barry
421 W BARRY AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 428 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
Chicago Campus 2
251 E Huron St
| College/University | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 937 tons
Highest 47%
|
|
Clark-Adams
105 W Adams St
| Office | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 3,478 tons
Highest 11%
|
|
233-Senior Suites of Hegewisch
13550 S AVENUE O
| Senior Living Community | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 430 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
Carl Schurz High School
(CPS)
3601 N Milwaukee Ave
| K-12 School | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 3,239 tons
Highest 12%
|
|
Illinois Masonic POB
3000 N HALSTED ST
| Medical Office | 7.1 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
| 1,013 tons
Highest 44%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data