Philadelphia Building Energy Benchmarking Program
The visualization tool provides building-level energy performance data for the last three calendar years for the nearly 2,800 buildings required to report utility information as part of Philadelphia’s energy benchmarking law. The chart and map tools are interactive and allow visualizing building energy performance comparisons throughout the city.
Have questions about Philadelphia's Building Energy Benchmarking Program and Compliance? Email Sophia Winston - swinston@greenbuildingunited.org
2020 is the most recent annual benchmarking dataset. This was the first dataset from the new decade and the first that encapsulates water and energy trends from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Our interactive tool provides downloadable data sets from 2013-2020 to better understand building effiency trends
Highlights:
- 265,666,820 Square Feet Reported
- 2375+ Buildings Reported
- 74.3% Compliance Rate
- 61 Median Energy Star Score
In 2019, the Office of Sustainability and Green Building United released a report analyzing the performance of benchmarked properties over the lifetime of the program and provided summary statistics on 2018 energy and water use data. The results show that, since 2013, Philadelphia’s benchmarked buildings have demonstrated a 5% reduction in overall energy use and over half of all buildings reported every year have achieved energy savings.
Highlights:
- 320+ Million Square Feet Reported
- 2700+ Buildings Reported
- 85% Compliance Rate
- 55 Median Energy Star Score
