Electrify Chicago

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We find Chicago's most polluting buildings, so you don't have to! Powered by public energy benchmarking data. 🌎 ElectrifyChicago.net Meets weekly @chihacknight.org

The Soldier field Electrify Chicago page with overlay text "More Imagery for Iconic Chicago Buildings! Do any of their grades surprise you?" showing a C overall from 2015 and a D in Emission Intensity, A in Energy Mix, and A in Consistent Reporting
A screenshot of Loyola's San Francisco Hall, showing a "Geothermal Heat Pump" green pill under notable features, with text on top saying "New Feature: Highlighting Geothermal Heat Pump Buildings!"
An Electrify Chicago page for Museum Buildings, showing 7 buildings with 35,576 tons of emissions, and a lot more stats, with text over that says "New Feature - More Property Type Stats & Graphs!"
An Electrify Chicago Data Centers page showing 7 buildings in the data using 1.7 billion kBTU of energy, equivalent to 480 median buildings citywide
A screenshot of Electrify Chicago showing Building Owners on the homepage, including CPS with 452 buildings, University of Chicago with 28 buildings, and Illinois Tech with 19
A Multifamily Housing property type page, showing 1,710 buildings with a 1.9 million tons of total emissions, and an avg ghg intensity of 5.9
Screenshot showing a page from the Chicago Central Area Plan, 2045, with a highlighted section under "Accelerate building decarbonization" that says "Expand the city's energy benchmarking program for buildings by reducing the threshold for required energy reports from 50,000-square-foot buildings to 25,000-square-foot buildings."
Title "New Analysis - Track Non-Reporting Buildings By Year!" with a table underneath labelled "Buildings Out of Compliance Per Year & Predicted Fines", with fines ranging from 3.8 - 9.9 million per year, from 420 - 1,080 non-reporting buildings, with a total of 3,867 incidents of non-compliance and $35.5 million in predicted fines
The Electrify Chicago page for Ward 42, showing that it has 370 tagged buildings, with 1.2 million in total emissions
"New Feature - Building Owner Stats! We've got top-level stats for all our building owners - including a breakdown of grades, total emissions, and more! " Overlayed on a screenshot of Illinois Tech, showing 19 tagged buildings with 132k tons CO2e total emissions, and an average GHG intensity of 55.5 kg CO2e/sqft, 9x the median building
A Google screenshot showing a search for "Marina Towers Emissions" with an AI overview showing stats that we render
A screenshot of 320 South Canal on Electrify Chicago, a tall glass office building, and CH1 - Chicago DC1, a large warehouse looking data center, with overlayed text that says "Imagery for New Buildings! Whether it's a brand new all-electric office building..." on the left and "...or a massive data- center, we want to show you info about our biggest buildings!" on the right
Electrify Chicago: New Feature - Badges for All Electric Buildings! Find the buildings that are already gas-free, from individual building pages or building tables! There's 135 all-electric buildings already! Find them at electrifychicago.net
A photo of a 16 story brick building in downtown Chicago, with text that says Guess This Building's Energy Grade! Your clues: Office building, built in 1890, 496,000 sqft, brick costruction. Do you think it got an A, B, C, D, or F? Swipe to check your answer
Graphs of Median GHG Intensity and Median GHG Emissions showing them going slowly down, with the former going from 8.3 to 6.5 from 2016 to 2023, while the latter is going from 1,099 tons to 841 tons in the same period
A screenshot of Herman Hall on Electrify Chicago showing a warning of out of date data, and that top-level stats are from 2021, the last full year of reporting
The Electrify Chicago Latest Updates page, showing that there are 61 new buildings, but 288 stopped reporting, with a net change of -227 buildings, with 2,261 consistent reporters
A close up of an Electrify Chicago page with the a print icon highlighted
A number of flyers on a table, including an Electrify Chicago flyer saying "How Much Does Your Building Pollute?"
The Electrify Chicago Wards page, showing a list of links for each of Chicago's 50 wards
The Electrify Chicago search page, with a mouse cursor over the GHG intensity column header
The Electrify Chicago homepage showing Chicago's most emissions intense buildings and some featured Chicago buildings, with Crown Hall getting an F, Digital Lakeside getting a C, and more.
The Electrify Chicago page for The Rookery Building showing it is 100% electric and has had declining emissions and GHG intensity in the years reported
The Electrify Chicago page for CoreSite, a data center at 427 S LaSalle St that has a GHG intensity of 114.8 kg CO2e/sqft, #1 highest in Chicago, and total emissions of 18,365 tons CO2e, #19 highest in Chicago, and 21 times the median building.
The Electrify Chicago page for the Monadnock building a very thick brick skyscraper, showing it has very low GHG intensity at 2.7 kg CO2e/sqft, half the median Chicago building
The Electrify Chicago page for CoreSite, a data center with 114.8 kg CO2e/sqft GHG intensity and total emissiosn of 18,365 tons, #19 highest in Chicago
The Electrify Chicago homepage showing a search prominently at the top and a first row of Chicago's Most Emissions Intense Buildings, and a second row of Featured Chicago buildings.