Have you heard that electric heating can't work in Chicago? Big buildings like Loyola's San Francisco Hall, home to their School of Environmental Sustainability, actually run off of all-electric geothermal heat pump systems - and you can now find them highlighted on Electrify Chicago! 🧵

Even more property type stats and graphs are now available on Electrify Chicago! Curious how much gas or electricity properties of a certain type use, and how it's changed over time? We've got the numbers! You can start with Chicago's museums at electrifychicago.net/property-typ...

Gas rates might be rising soon in Chicago, but did you know a lot of big buildings in Chicago are already all-electric? They won't be feeling these rate hikes, and are reducing emissions and keeping our air cleaner! electrifychicago.net/all-electric

Data Centers in Chicago use a LOT of electricity, and we're adding some stats to show you just how much - in this case, 7 data centers use as much energy as 480 median large Chicago buildings! More data coming soon to electrifychicago.net/property-typ...

You can now find building owners on the ElectrifyChicago.net homepage! We want to make it really quick and easy for folks to see Chicago's biggest property owners and their emissions - did any of these surprise you? 👀

We're cooking up something new - a property type overview page! We want to make it easier to see stats among properties of the same type, and to see some quick images of what those buildings look like. Is there anything you'd like to see? 👀

We were excited to see energy benchmarking mentioned in the Chicago Central Area Plan 2045, and to see that they want to expand it to more buildings! Do you know any buildings that would start reporting with this new threshold?

Chicago's budget season is still underway - and we're excited to see this op-ed in Crain's talking about the multi-million dollar opportunity of enforcing energy benchmarking! www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chic...

We've made some updates to our fines breakdown, so you can see how many big Chicago buildings didn't report in each year! Did you know in 2019, it was over one thousand?! 🤯 Check out the info at electrifychicago.net/fines-breakdown, and let us know if you have more suggestions or data questions!

So who's emailed their alders? Have any of you heard back? 👀

"The city doesn't enforce the fines"?? I mean what the hell are we doing here folks, it's not like the city is swimming in revenue

Chicago's largest buildings are breaking emissions laws, costing the city nearly $35 million in uncollected fines! Buildings over 50,000 sqft are required to report their emissions, but thousands haven't, and have faced none of the penalties. Contact your alder to help at electrifychicago.net/act

We keep working on new tools to understand Chicago's buildings, and this past week, a contributor added stats to our ward pages! Have you wondered how many buildings are in your ward, and if their better than average? Find you ward at electrifychicago.net/wards

Some universities and agencies own dozens of buildings in Chicago, so we made it easier to understand these large owners and their emissions! Now you can see a breakdown of the grades their buildings get, the total square footage of their buildings, and a whole lot more.

Good News - Electrify Chicago is doing great in search! If you're interested in a building's emissions, we're going to come up. Bad News - Google is stealing our work for their AI summary 🫠 Support us by sharing our site directly to help push back against our robot overlords 🤖

A week ago, we updated our site to show you the latest building data, highlighting some brand new buildings. Now, we've added imagery, so you can recognize these properties and see what they look like! What buildings do you find most interesting or surprising?

Ever wonder which of Chicago's iconic are already all-electric? Now you can find out at a glance! We've added new badges and a lightning icon to highlight all 135 all-electric buildings on Electrify Chicago. Are there any buildings you didn't know were all electric?

We've been looking at Chicago's building data for a while, and some buildings surprise you - what do you think this building's grade is?! Check our reply to check your answer, and leave a comment if you guessed right, or were totally surprised!

We've got the scoop on Chicago's buildings! We've updated Electrify Chicago with the city's latest 2023 data, including analysis of new buildings, the buildings that fell out of compliance, and a new citywide stats page. 🚨 But there's a problem - 288 buildings stopped reporting this year! 🧵

New feature alert! Have you ever wanted to print off a particular building, to share it out in the real world? We've got a new print button and print styling just for you! We streamlined and condensed the data, and added a QR code, so anyone seeing your printed page can see the full data

Old buildings aren't necessarily inefficient - the beautiful Monadnock building from the 1890s has some incredibly low greenhouse gas intensity, lower than 98% of Chicago buildings! Can you guess its secret? electrifychicago.net/building/the...

We were out at EcoFest today, telling folks how they can learn about how much energy Chicago's biggest buildings use, and how much they emit!

Exciting update! Electrify Chicago has a brand new wards page, letting you easily find your what buildings any alderperson might represent, and each building's page will now show the ward they're located in. Give it a try! electrifychicago.net/wards

On a poor air quality day like today, it's a good opportunity to look at how Chicago's biggest buildings contribute both to local air pollution and climate change! electrifychicago.net

Need more tools to look for buildings on Electrify Chicago? A new contributor (thanks Ted!) just added the ability to sort GHG Intensity and total emissions on our search page, so you can do things like find the most efficient big hotels in Chicago! Check it out at: electrifychicago.net/search

We've got a huge feature update - building grades! Now on electrifychicago.net you can see at a glance how a building stacks up to others. How does your building stack up?

We noticed that some poor performing buildings in Chicago stop reporting their emissions to the city - but is that a trend, or just coincidence? Our contributor Colton dug in with data science to find out in our new article: electrifychicago.net/blog/GHG-Int...

Thanks to a first-time contributor, we added some more imagery! There's now images for over a dozen significant buildings, including The Rookery, Thompson Center, Adler Planetarium, and more! Check out their emissions at: electrifychicago.net/building/the... electrifychicago.net/building/tho...

Want the data on data centers? We've got you covered! Learn about five large data centers in Chicago, and how they consume energy: electrifychicago.net/search?q=&ty...

Happy Saturday! On our redesigned homepage we feature a 130 year old downtown office building that, despite its age, is one of the top 10 lowest emissions intensity office buildings in Chicago! Learn more about the Monadnock building, and find others like it: electrifychicago.net/building/the...

👋 Oh hi! We're Electrify Chicago - a volunteer run, open-source project that analyses city data, so you can learn how Chicago buildings use energy and how much they emit as a result. Want to find Chicago's dirtiest building or just learn about your office? Go to ElectrifyChicago.net!