Municipal Decarbonization Dashboard
Municipal Decarbonization Dashboard
The City of Seattle is working to improve energy efficiency and eliminate climate pollution from all City-owned buildings by 2042. We’re insulating drafty buildings to stabilize temperatures, replacing gas boilers with electric heat pump systems that heat and cool, and much more.
This dashboard is designed to help us track our impact and progress. Buildings included here contain conditioned spaces, and either are using fossil fuels, are public-facing, or are at least 1,500 square feet (SF).
Using the Dashboard
Energy Use and Emissions
View energy use and emissions data for individual or groups of properties broken down over time and by energy source. Use the Metric drop-down button to change which of the four different metrics are shown on the page.
Regulatory Targets
View progress toward emissions targets set by Seattle’s Building Emissions Performance Standard and energy use intensity targets set by Washington’s Clean Buildings Performance Standard. Data is only shown for buildings large enough to be required to comply with the regulations. Targets shown are estimates and may not be the final target.
Decarbonization Tracker
View efforts toward Seattle’s goal of removing fossil fuels from City-owned buildings by 2042. For each building using fossil fuels, the tracker shows % Complete in electrifying energy consumption for each of 5 energy end uses. If a building doesn’t use energy for a given purpose, the corresponding chart row is empty. The title of each chart shows the year the building is planned to be decarbonized by. The baseline of fossil fuel use is set as the start of 2018.
About This Data
Data is shown as twelve-month totals and will be refreshed twice a year in April and October. Reporting periods will correspond to calendar years except for the October refresh, which will temporarily have a twelve-month period from July of the previous year to June of the present year.
Occasionally, neighboring buildings share energy meters, making it impossible to determine energy consumption for the individual buildings. For this reason, data is shown for the property with a shared meter rather than for each individual building. Complete historical data may not be available for all properties.
Where there is no meter to read usage consistently, we estimate usage from fuel purchase data and allocate across time using an average energy distribution for the loads served. This is often the case with propane and oil fuels.
While energy consumption data is generally directly measurable, estimated greenhouse gas emissions are calculated using BEPS emissions factors.