05499 - Durfee Ave - South El Monte

How does 05499 - Durfee Ave - South El Monte compare with other retail store buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,742 retail store buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. 05499 - Durfee Ave - South El Monte's ENERGY STAR score of 56 compares with an average of 76 across the 1,305 that report a score; it scores higher than 21% of them and lower than 79%. Its site EUI of 55.3 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 53.2 kBtu/ft². Its emissions intensity of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 12,900 sq ft, it is about 90% below the average floor area of 124,053 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2009, 18 years later than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,025 retail store buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 57.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 56 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 56 means the building performs better than about 56% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 56 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 19 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In California, 65% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. 05499 - Durfee Ave - South El Monte's 55.3 kBtu/ft² across 12,900 sq ft works out to about 0.7 billion Btu (209 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 203,328 kWh of electricity and 2 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 05499 - Durfee Ave - South El Monte to report its energy use?

05499 - Durfee Ave - South El Monte reports under AB 802 (Public Resources Code §25402.10), the legal basis of California's Building Energy Benchmarking Program (statewide), which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2023 disclosure (source record california:38044693:2023). AB 802 requires every California commercial building over 50,000 sq ft to report energy use to the CEC annually; the CEC publicly discloses the results statewide.