The residential sector of buildings is trailing in energy efficiency improvements compared to the municipal and commercial sector according to the latest government benchmarking report. Therefore, prioritized and targeted interventions can be designed for the zip codes of 11216 and 11207. The residents of those zipcodes need efficiency gains in the BQDM to both protect ConEd's delivery of power while also protecting the residents in their homes.

To enhance further analysis, a precise spatial geometry of the ConEd sub-zones, currently not available, would narrow the geographic focus. Also to recommend and identify energy efficiency projects in the BQDM, incorporate an analysis of the data collected from building energy audits (LL87 of 2009), an analysis for buildings over 50,000 SF every ten years. The housing in the BQDM may have socioeconomic factors from collected Census data to compare against EUI. This would also allow for a focused initiatives on preserving equity and economic justice as New York faces climate change stressors that disproportionately impact the poorer social groups.