The following is from the CBECS main web page located at:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cbecs/

This is bad news to the modeling community.

Jason

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CBECS Status

EIA regrets to report that the 2007 Commercial Buildings
Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) has not yielded valid
statistical estimates of building counts, energy
characteristics, consumption, and expenditures. Because the
data do not meet EIA standards for quality, credible energy
information, neither data tables nor a public use file will
be released. In the interim, EIA will develop key energy
indicators for commercial buildings in collaboration with
EIA?s forecasting staff for the Annual Energy Outlook.

Factors contributing to this outcome include the use of a
cheaper but experimental survey frame and sampling method by
EIA?s prime contractor, design errors in the construction of
the method and selection of common building types, and an
inability to monitor and manage its use in a production
survey environment. EIA has reviewed and introduced
significant changes in its procurement and project
management standards that will prevent this type of loss in
the future.

As reported in the EIA Press Release, "Immediate Reductions
in EIA's Energy Data and Analysis Programs Necessitated by
FY 2011 Funding Cut"
(http://www.eia.gov/pressroom/releases/press362.cfm), work
on the 2011 CBECS has been suspended at this time.

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Jason Glazer, P.E.