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Table 5:  Electricity consumption and cost by size category


Electricity
Consumption Cost
Total (billion kWh) per Building (thousand kWh) per Square Foot (kWh) per hundred kWh (dollars)
All Food Service Buildings 49 171 36.0 8.07
       
Building Floorspace Category      
Small  31 147 56.3 8.64
Medium  17 229 22.1 7.12
Large Q Q Q Q

Small buildings = 1,001 to 5,000 square feet
Medium buildings = 5,001 to 50,000 square feet
Large buildings = Over 50,000 square feet
Q=Data withheld because the Relative Standard Error (RSE) was greater than 50 percent, or data were reported for fewer than 20 buildings.

Source:  Energy Information Administration, 
1995 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey.



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