Building Energy Use Baseline Study

The City of Melbourne commissioned SPR to prepare a Building Baseline Study of the city, its energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The study is a key resource for the City and for other stakeholders in meeting the following objectives:

• Informing the development of the Retrofit Melbourne Implementation Plan
• Helping the City to identify specific and effective decarbonisation pathways for different sectors in the built environment
• Supporting the analysis and development of effective and efficient policy and regulatory options
• Providing an authoritative set of insights into the city’s structure and energy use in particular

The study supports the City’s goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. The City estimates that buildings represent 66% of the municipality’s emissions, making this the key sector for abatement purposes. The Baseline Study provides a solid grounding and key information required for these outcomes, by providing a detailed, spatially disaggregated and validated map of the city’s buildings by type, space use by type, other relevant building characteristics, energy use by fuel, and greenhouse gas emissions.