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U.S. Commercial Buildings Energy Intensity


Released Date: December 2004
Page Last Modified: Jan 2007


 
Table 6c. U.S. Commercial Buildings Energy Intensity Using Weather-Adjusted Site Energy1 by Census Region and Principal Building Activity, 1992-1995
(Million Btu per Worker)
Principal Building Activity
and Census Region
Survey Years
 
19922
19953
U.S. Total
60
68
  Education
84
60
  Food Sales
97
208
  Food Service 
75
140
  Health Care
76
123
  Lodging
105
166
  Mercantile and Service
45
70
  Office
40
37
  Public Assembly
70
147
  Public Order and Safety
63
71
  Religious Worship
36
26
  Warehouse and Storage
84
65
  Other 4
110
91
  Vacant
102
78
 
Total Northeast
45
67
  Education
96
75
  Food Sales
Q
  Food Service 
74
Q
  Health Care
54
157
  Lodging
65
137
  Mercantile and Service
22
67
  Office
33
32
  Public Assembly
58
145
  Public Order and Safety
113
65
  Religious Worship
38
67
  Warehouse and Storage
110
63
  Other 4
68
Q
  Vacant
Q
60
 
Total Midwest
79
84
  Education
102
62
  Food Sales
100
Q
  Food Service 
101
160
  Health Care
117
180
  Lodging
111
177
  Mercantile and Service
71
110
  Office
49
42
  Public Assembly
71
132
  Public Order and Safety
95
  Religious Worship
67
109
  Warehouse and Storage
114
106
  Other 4
Q
Q
  Vacant
192
Q
 
Total South
62
62
  Education
65
54
  Food Sales
114
196
  Food Service 
64
135
  Health Care
78
115
  Lodging
139
193
  Mercantile and Service
56
64
  Office
45
35
  Public Assembly
74
110
  Public Order and Safety
41
57
  Religious Worship
33
11
  Warehouse and Storage
69
53
  Other 4
111
  Vacant
98
55
 
Total West
55
61
  Education
75
50
  Food Sales
104
192
  Food Service 
66
174
  Health Care
51
82
  Lodging
125
145
  Mercantile and Service
58
44
  Office
33
38
  Public Assembly
73
Q
  Public Order and Safety
Q
  Religious Worship
20
25
  Warehouse and Storage
50
49
  Other 4
85
Q
  Vacant
84
104

1 Sum of major fuels. Weather-adjusted energy consumption for 1999and 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 Estimates adjusted to match the 1995 and 1999 CBECS definition of target population. More information available online: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cbecs/comparesampdesign.html
3 Per employee during main shift.
4 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 (EIA), 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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