Commercial Energy Profile Database™ (CEPD)
Large Energy-Consuming Facilities
A comprehensive database of 155,000 of the largest energy consuming commercial facilities in the United States, the IHS
CEPD encompasses facilities from the areas of public health and education, wholesale trade, retail/trade, services, and public administration - all to help you quickly and accurately identify new customers. Specifically, CEPD includes the largest electric and natural gas consuming facilities in those areas, including:
- Hospitals
- Nursing homes
- Elementary and secondary schools
- Universities
- Colleges
- Libraries
- Correctional institutions
- Rooming and boarding houses
- Hotels and motels
- Commercial laundries and dry cleaners
- Theaters
- Energy intensive wholesalers and retailers including grocers, frozen foods, poultry, meats, lumber and hardware
A calculated approach to estimating energy use
At IHS, our goal is to simplify your marketing efforts by giving you the most valid, accurate and useful data possible. CEPD leverages extensive data updated daily for its Major Industrial Plant Database, and a highly detailed regression model using U.S. government site surveys of commercial facility energy usage. IHS uses this information to develop weighted electric and gas consumption estimation factors for specific U.S. NAIC/SIC codes. We apply those results to the appropriate commercial facility and weight them by production. Routinely, we run resulting energy estimates through an extensive set of edit procedures. This detailed process gives you data on which you can confidently build marketing and sales campaigns.