A Look at Retail and Service Buildings - Table 4: Major Fuel Consumption Cost by Type

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RETAIL AND SERVICE BUILDINGS
Table 4: Major fuel consumption and cost by type of retail or service and size category

	Sum of Major Fuels
	Consumption			Cost
	Total (trillion Btu)	per Building (million Btu)	per Square Foot (thousand Btu)	per million Btu (dollars)

All Retail and Service Buildings	973	755	76.4	14.42

Type of Retail or Service*
Retail	563	800	61.7	16.63
- All Malls	275	1,938	58.4	18.28
--- Strip Malls	181	1,399	62.8	18.57
--- Enclosed Malls	94	Q	51.5	17.72
- Retail Other Than Malls	288	513	65.1	15.05
Service	410	701	113.9	11.38

Building Floorspace Category
Small	191	259	103.6	14.96
Medium	468	895	74.1	13.44
Large	314	10,547	68.7	15.54

*More than one may apply.
Q=Data withheld because the Relative Standard Error (RSE) was greater than 50 percent, or data were reported for fewer than 20 buildings.
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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Release date: September 11, 2000
File last modified: January 3, 2001