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The Closest Look Yet at the Relative Energy Efficiency of Big Buildings
How do you reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of skyscrapers? For starters, make a chart.
New York City's largest buildings have as outsized a place in the city's energy use profile as they do in the skyline. Just two percent of New York's properties account for 48 percent of the city's energy use.
What's a city to do? The Bloomberg administration is doing what it does best: crunching massive amounts of data. On Wednesday, the mayor released the city's second annual benchmarking report [PDF], which analyzes the year-to-year energy and water use of New York's 26,680 largest buildings.