Thread: What is a rough estimate of the power a 20 story building consumes? I want to analyze powering one. ?

How much electricity in a range or approximation does a 20 story building consume?

How did you do your math?

What would be an effective way to power it through alternative energies?
an example of what I hope to get is something like
http://homeenergy.org/archive/hem.dis.anl.gov/eehem/93/930509.html
is this that hard of question, I mean it certainly isn't going to be 3 trillion watts or just 2 watts so at least give me an interval and the confidence of it.

Only way I can think of is to have a wind farm off-site or perhaps replace east and west facing windows w/ solar panels. The easiest way to go about estimating the amount of electricity the building would use would probably be to first figure out one story, then just multiply the figure.