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.
Chicago Buildings by Greenhouse Gas Intensity
Note: Data only includes large Chicago buildings from 2020
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 2020, but when new benchmark data is available, we'll update the site.
| Property Name / address | Primary Property Type |
Greenhouse Gas Intensity (kg CO2/sqft) |
Total Greenhouse Emissions (metric tons CO2 eq.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Provident Hospital
🚩
500 E 51st St
| Hospital (General Medical & Surgical) | 25.7 
Highest 5%
| 9,599
Highest 7%
|
|
Jewel Food Store
4734 N Cumberland Ave
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 25.5
Highest 5%
| 1,343 
Lowest 22%
|
|
Saint Anthony Hospital - Main Hospital
2875 W 19th St
| Hospital (General Medical & Surgical) | 25.5
Highest 5%
| 6,096
Highest 12%
|
|
Jewel Osco, 03441-Ashland & Wellington
2940 N Ashland Ave
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 25.3
Highest 5%
| 1,877
Lowest 44%
|
|
Shop & Save Market - Archer
5829 S Archer Ave
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 25.1
Highest 5%
| 1,688
Lowest 37%
|
|
The Park at Wrigley
1101 W WAVELAND AVE
| Office | 25.0
Highest 5%
| 6,193
Highest 12%
|
|
Jewel Osco, 03376-Kinzie & Des Plaines
370 N Desplaines St
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 25.0
Highest 5%
| 1,628
Lowest 34%
|
|
600 N MICHIGAN AVE
600 N MICHIGAN AVE
| Retail Store | 25.0
Highest 5%
| 5,234
Highest 14%
|
|
Jewel Osco, 03092-95th & Stony Island
1655 E 95th St
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 24.8
Highest 5%
| 1,799
Lowest 42%
|
|
Dunning Square
6408 - 6450 W Irving Park Rd
| Strip Mall | 24.8
Highest 5%
| 3,191
Highest 28%
|
|
Chatham Ridge Shopping Center
112 W 87th St
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 24.6
Highest 5%
| 1,521
Lowest 31%
|
|
NMH Olson Pavilion
(Northwestern)
710 N Fairbanks Ct
| Laboratory | 24.6
Highest 5%
| 4,586
Highest 18%
|
|
26 N Halsted St
26 N Halsted St
| Office | 24.5
Highest 6%
| 1,405
Lowest 24%
|
|
Jones Laboratory
🏆
(UChicago)
5747 S Ellis Ave
| Laboratory | 24.0
Highest 6%
| 1,737
Lowest 40%
|
|
Jewel Osco, 03442-Foster & Pulaski
4042 W Foster Ave
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 24.0
Highest 6%
| 1,563
Lowest 32%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data