A Block-By-Block Look At The Energy Consumption Of New York’s Buildings

City buildings use massive amounts of energy, but no one really knows exactly how much. A new interactive map pulls the curtains off New York’s electric bills.

Like any dense city, New York City consumes a lot of energy--midtown Manhattan, for example, sucks up more power than the entire country of Kenya. Over two-thirds of the city’s energy use comes from buildings. In order to make any sort of dent in the city’s energy use, the city needs to know which buildings are consuming the most electricity. Power meters can do that on a micro level, but researchers from Columbia University have figured out how to do it on a larger scale, with an amazing interactive map that reveals the energy use of almost every building in the city.

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