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Buildings & Facilities-40.5% Buildings & Facilities-31.0% Streetlights & Traffic Signals-30.7% Streetlights & Traffic Signals-14.0% Solid Waste Facilites-0.5% Solid Waste Facilities-0.2% Vehicle Fleet-12.7% Vehicle Fleet-31.5% Employee Commute-15.1% Employee Commute-23.3% ₂ Mobile Source Refridgerants-0.5% Figure 12: COe Figure 13: Energy Use (% of Total Government Emissions) (% of Total MMBtu) Careful observation of the 2005 GHG emissions data for University City’s government operations, summarized in Table 20 above, shows that municipally-owned buildings and facilities were the largest contributing GHG emitters. Although this sector accounted for the ₂ largest amount of COe emissions, University City’s “Streetlights and Traffic Signals” sector was the second largest emitter as well as the most costly energy user. It is also important to note that while the city’s vehicle fleet only accounted for approximately 12.7 percent of the government’s GHG emissions in 2005, it was the largest user of energy at 21,077 MMBtu’s for the year. The following figures provide a much more in-depth analysis for government emissions in 2005 by further categorizing each sector into subsectors. Buildings & Facilities Sector Detailed Report The “Buildings and Facilities” sector is comprised of all facilities owned and operated by the City of University City. Emissions resulting from these facilities originate from the consumption of electricity and natural gas. Table 21 (below) depicts the Scope 1 Buildings and Facilities emissions data, which results from the use of natural gas in these facilities. Collectively, Scope 1 emissions from municipally-owned structures totaled approximately 567 metric tons of COe in 2 2005. Comparatively, the Scope 2 Buildings and Facilities emissions totaled approximately 2,464 metric tons of COe in 2005. Tables 21 and 22 show that the largest emitting government 2 facilities are city hall, the library, the recreation center/swimming pool, and the city hall annex, xx respectively. Table 23 provides energy (MBtu) on a per square foot basis (thousands of BTU per square foot). This data helps analyze the energy efficiency of the building. Give the largest per capita energy users. Table 21: Buildings & Facilities Scope 1 GHG Emissions (Natural gas usage), 2005 2010-2011 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, City of University City, MO 28