City of Melbourne 2026 Projected Block-Level Energy Consumption Under Retrofit Scenario

2026 projection relative to a 2011 baseline provides modeled energy consumption for commercial and residential buildings across the City of Melbourne municipality. The data is modeled from building attributes like age and floor area, not metered, and is provided at a block level scale by the CSIRO.

Use Cases

• Analyze projected energy consumption changes from 2011 to 2026 under a building retrofit scenario for urban planning.
• Model energy performance correlations using building attributes such as building age and floor area.
• Compare energy consumption trends between commercial and residential building sectors at a block level.
• Integrate block-level energy projections with spatial data (SHP, GEOJSON) for geographic analysis of retrofit impacts.

Strengths

• Data covers both commercial and residential building sectors for comprehensive urban analysis.
• Provides a 15-year forward projection (2011 to 2026) based on a defined retrofit scenario.
• Available in multiple spatial and tabular formats including SHP, JSON, CSV, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Data is modeled from building attributes, not actual metered consumption, introducing potential estimation error.
• Excludes the industrial sector, limiting analysis of total municipal energy use.
• Projection relies on a specific retrofit scenario; other policy or market scenarios are not represented.

Provenance

Source

CSIRO, commissioned by IMAP Councils and published by City of Melbourne Open Data.

Collection Method

Modeled based on building attributes (e.g., building age, floor area) under a grant agreement.

Time Range

2011 baseline to 2026 projection.

Freshness

Projection data last updated March 2026.

Geography

City of Melbourne municipality, Australia.