{"id":2554,"date":"2020-10-12T21:52:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T01:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:53:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:53:59","slug":"day-4-how-much-energy-by-type-does-the-average-nj-business-use-and-the-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/archived-posts\/day-4-how-much-energy-by-type-does-the-average-nj-business-use-and-the-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 &#8211;  How much energy by type does the average NJ business use and the costs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The approximate average annual commercial energy uses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>74,424 kWh of electricity costing $9,250 and emitting 39,370 pounds of CO2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7,031 therms of natural gas costing $6,174 emitting 79,818 pounds of CO2&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>x gallons of diesel costing $x and emitting x pounds of CO2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approximate average annual industrial uses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>620,442 kWh of electricity costing $62,479 and emitting 328,213 lbs of CO2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>95,121 therms of natural gas costing $73,862 emitting 1,107,109 pounds of CO2&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>y gallons of diesel costing $y and emitting y pounds of CO2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Energy tip:<\/strong> To reduce our energy use and its impacts from your business, starts with knowing how much energy we use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For small businesses with an electric peak load less than 200 kW per month over 12 months the NJBPU Clean Energy Program offers a free energy estimate \u2013 See <a href=\"https:\/\/njcleanenergy.com\/commercial-industrial\/programs\/direct-install\">https:\/\/njcleanenergy.com\/commercial-industrial\/programs\/direct-install<\/a> for more details&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For larger businesses&nbsp; with loads greater than 200 kW per month the NJBPU Clean Energy Program offers a whole building approach with enhanced rebates based on total energy savings \u2013 See <a href=\"https:\/\/njcleanenergy.com\/commercial-industrial\/programs\/pay-performance\">https:\/\/njcleanenergy.com\/commercial-industrial\/programs\/pay-performance<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The approximate average annual commercial energy uses: 74,424 kWh of electricity costing $9,250 and emitting 39,370 pounds of CO2 7,031 therms of natural gas costing $6,174 emitting 79,818 pounds of CO2&nbsp; x gallons of diesel costing $x and emitting x pounds of CO2 The approximate average annual industrial uses: 620,442 kWh of electricity costing $62,479 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11146,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}