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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Winston Towers One
6933 N Kedzie Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 
Lowest 15%
| 1,846
Lowest 43%
|
|
One North LaSalle
1 N LaSalle St
| Office | 5.7
Lowest 15%
| 3,140 
Highest 29%
|
|
Windermere House
1642 E 56th St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7
Lowest 15%
| 2,039
Lowest 50%
|
|
Shoreline Towers CA
6301 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7
Lowest 15%
| 2,532
Highest 38%
|
|
71215A State St
101 N State St E
| Retail Store | 5.7
Lowest 15%
| 10,414
Highest 6%
|
|
Two North LaSalle
2 N LaSalle St
| Office | 5.6
Lowest 14%
| 4,346
Highest 19%
|
|
3150 N Sheridan Rd
3150 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6
Lowest 14%
| 1,277
Lowest 18%
|
|
Wilton U.S. 65 East LLC
65 E Wacker Pl
| Office | 5.6
Lowest 14%
| 1,397
Lowest 24%
|
|
Warwick Allerton Hotel Chicago
136 148 E Huron St
| Hotel | 5.6
Lowest 14%
| 1,691
Lowest 37%
|
|
33 N Dearborn
33 N Dearborn St
| Office | 5.6
Lowest 14%
| 2,081
Highest 49%
|
|
The Columbian Condominium Association
1160 S Michigan Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6
Lowest 14%
| 2,591
Highest 37%
|
|
Coast at Lakeshore East
345 E Wacker Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6
Lowest 14%
| 3,230
Highest 28%
|
|
Alta at K Station
555 W Kinzie St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6
Lowest 14%
| 5,171
Highest 15%
|
|
2480 N MILWAUKEE AVE
2480 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.5
Lowest 13%
| 1,578
Lowest 33%
|
|
1212 N. Wells CA
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1212 N Wells St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.5
Lowest 13%
| 1,006
#3 Lowest
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data