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How do they use electricity?

OFFICE BUILDINGS
Table 5: Electricity consumption and cost by size category

	Electricity
	Consumption			Cost
	Total (billion kWh)	per Building (thousand kWh)	per Square Foot (kWh)	per hundred kWh (dollars)

All Office Buildings	198	281	18.9	7.08

Building Floorspace Category
Small	16	39	14.8	8.29
Medium	58	223	15.4	8.06
Large	124	3,252	22.1	6.46

Small buildings = 1,001 to 5,000 square feet
Medium buildings = 5,001 to 50,000 square feet
Large buildings = Over 50,000 square feet

Source: Energy Information Administration,
1995 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey.

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CBECS Manager
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Release date: September 11, 2000
File last modified: January 3, 2001