New York City Energy Use All Over the Map

How much energy does your building use per year?  

  

In quest of taking some of the mystery out of energy usage in a city like New York, Vijay Modi, a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University, and graduate student Bianca Howard conducted a project to put the city's energy consumption on the map. The results of their work are displayed on an interactive map estimating the total annual energy consumption for nearly every building across the five boroughs. 

 

Click here to read the full article to learn more about the project and lessons learned from it. 

 

More Information: Code Status of New York State | Modi Research Group