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U.S. Commercial Buildings Energy Intensity


Released Date: December 2004
Page Last Modified:Jan 2007


Table 6a. U.S. Commercial Buildings Energy Intensity Using Weather-Adjusted Site Energy1 by Census Region and Principal Building Activity, 1992-1995
(Million Btu per Building)
Principal Building Activity
and Census Region
Survey Years
1992
1995
U.S.Total 2
1,120
1,137
  Education
2,162
1,945
  Food Sales
1,063
991
  Food Service 
1,234
1,151
  Health Care
6,624
5,264
  Lodging
3,030
2,871
  Mercantile and Service
698
733
  Office
1,632
1,411
  Public Assembly
1,123
1,349
  Public Order and Safety
1,540
1,389
  Religious Worship
299
376
  Warehouse and Storage
617
546
  Other 3
2,243
2,496
  Vacant
357
191
 
Total Northeast
1,420
1,405
  Education
4,694
4,111
  Food Sales
Q
  Food Service 
1,140
Q
  Health Care
8,261
8,110
  Lodging
3,335
6,004
  Mercantile and Service
728
707
  Office
1,786
1,634
  Public Assembly
1,473
1,606
  Public Order and Safety
1,978
1,294
  Religious Worship
514
456
  Warehouse and Storage
841
767
  Other 3
1,510
Q
  Vacant
Q
260
 
Total Midwest
1,314
1,257
  Education
4,387
3,958
  Food Sales
1,267
Q
  Food Service 
1,387
1,150
  Health Care
10,351
7,334
  Lodging
3,479
3,493
  Mercantile and Service
757
785
  Office
1,938
1,588
  Public Assembly
993
1,147
  Public Order and Safety
1,343
  Religious Worship
462
543
  Warehouse and Storage
767
613
  Other 3
Q
Q
  Vacant
459
Q
 
Total South
890
942
  Education
1,423
1,275
  Food Sales
747
765
  Food Service 
1,069
1,205
  Health Care
9,394
3,728
  Lodging
2,680
2,845
  Mercantile and Service
599
755
  Office
1,494
999
  Public Assembly
1,005
858
  Public Order and Safety
972
1,471
  Religious Worship
178
239
  Warehouse and Storage
479
495
  Other 3
2,603
  Vacant
161
111
 
Total West
1,105
1,149
  Education
1,080
1,149
  Food Sales
1,319
974
  Food Service 
1,390
1,041
  Health Care
1,731
5,260
  Lodging
2,995
1,950
  Mercantile and Service
820
612
  Office
1,433
1,922
  Public Assembly
1,361
Q
  Public Order and Safety
Q
  Religious Worship
348
386
  Warehouse and Storage
460
365
  Other 3
2,093
Q
  Vacant
770
171

1. Sum of major fuels. Weather-adjusted energy consumption for 1999 and 2003 is not reported because 1999 and 2003 CBECS do not estimate energy consumption for space heating, space cooling, and ventilation. Normals are based on calculations of data from 1971 through 2000. To aggregate Census division degree-days to Census regions, each division value is weighted by its percentage of the total Census region population.
2. Total does not include parking garages.
3. Laboratory buildings are included in the "Other" category.
Q = Data withheld because the Relative Standard Error was greater than 50 percent or fewer than 20 buildings were sampled.
Sources: Energy Information Administration, Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Surveys, 1992, 1995, and EIA, "Annual Energy Review,"2005; Tables 1.10 and 1.19. Available online:http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/txt/ptb0110.html, and http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/txt/ptb0109.html

 

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