New York City Energy Consumption
New york s energy efficiency results in part from the new york city metropolitan region s widely used mass transportation systems but also from a higher average of the population living in cities and more importantly in apartments rather than homes.
New york city energy consumption. 64 roberts david new york just passed the most ambitious climate target in the country vox july 22 2019. Annual report for 1991 1991. Now you can picture it thanks to one columbia university professor s interactive energy. Cnn new york city residents are waking up later and using more energy in the daytime since they were ordered to stay at home last month data from the earth institute at columbia university shows.
New york s clean energy standard was revised in 2019 to require 100 carbon free electricity by 2040. Energy data water data. Energy and water data. An energy consumption map for new york city.
Space heating plug loads lighting space cooling and water heating represent almost 80 of energy consumption in new york city. Energy consumption total and per capita by state state energy department 1997. In 2018 29 of new york s in state generation at both large and small scale facilities came from renewable sources. New york power authority.
62 nc clean energy technology center dsire new york renewable portfolio standard updated june 26 2018. Click on the section titles below to review how to obtain both types of data. Energy data in order to obtain whole building energy consumption data for benchmarking building owners will need to obtain residential or non residential tenant. In 1991 the power authority sold 36 2 billion kilowatt hours kwh of electricity supplying 24 percent of the state s needs 4 31 gw electrical only.
The nyc benchmarking law requires building owners to report data on annual energy and water usage. Energy consumption typically decreases with increasing population density while at the same time the energy efficiency in the transportation and. New york 4093 2 trillion btu 137 gw.