0793-Palo Alto - East Bayshore Road

How does 0793-Palo Alto - East Bayshore Road compare with other self-storage facility buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,935 self-storage facility buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 3.9 kBtu/ft² is about 26% below the average of 5.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 0.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 25% below the group average of 0.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 63,376 sq ft, it is about 36% below the average floor area of 99,202 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2009, 16 years later than the group's average year built (1993). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,050 self-storage facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 75 and a site EUI of 9.4 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 3.9 kBtu/ft² mean?

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. 0793-Palo Alto - East Bayshore Road's 3.9 kBtu/ft² across 63,376 sq ft works out to about 0.2 billion Btu (72 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. The disclosure also reports 71,824 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires 0793-Palo Alto - East Bayshore Road to report its energy use?

0793-Palo Alto - East Bayshore Road 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 2022 disclosure (source record california:3663641:2022). 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.