shopping mall electricity?

The actual load of a commercial customer is substantially less than the size of their main switch. Usually far less than 50%.

It is hard to define a "large shopping mall", so here are some numbers that will put things into perspective.

A 120,000 ft² retail store (ex. Walmart, Target, etc) has a peak summer demand of around 500-600 kW. More for a Supercenter.

A slightly smaller retail store (ex. Kohl's) is probably around 250 kW.

Small stores in the mall are in the 30-50 kW range.

A 70,000 ft² grocery store will have a peak summer demand of around 700-800 kW.

A large shopping mall with multiple anchor tenants might be in the range of 3 to 4 MW. (3000 to 4000 kW)

Malls generally take electric service at 277/480 3-phase. Assuming a power factor of 0.90, you can convert kW to amps, with the following formula.

kW ÷ 0.90 ÷ .480 kV ÷ √3 = amps

Simplified: kW ÷ 0.747 = amps

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I obtained some actual loads on a 4,000,000 ft² shopping mall served with a spot network. The summer peak load for the entire mall is 13,700 kW. That works out to around 3½ watts per ft².

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Roughly the average mall will have a 2000amp service ...This may be in the form of a combination of service drops ranging in size from 225amps to 400amps the most common voltage at the amperage is a 480/277 3phase 4 wire wye.....120 volt power is aquired from transformers within the system.....from the E...