30-E1 Harbor Justice Center - Newport Beach Facility

How does 30-E1 Harbor Justice Center - Newport Beach Facility compare with other courthouse buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 114 courthouse buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. 30-E1 Harbor Justice Center - Newport Beach Facility's ENERGY STAR score of 60 compares with an average of 61 across the 93 that report a score; it scores higher than 44% of them and lower than 54%. Its site EUI of 67.2 kBtu/ft² is about 12% below the average of 76.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 4.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 11% below the group average of 4.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 110,855 sq ft, it is about 40% below the average floor area of 184,912 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1975, 7 years earlier than the group's average year built (1982). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 178 courthouse buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 62 and a site EUI of 76.2 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 60 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 60 means the building performs better than about 60% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 60 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 15 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. 30-E1 Harbor Justice Center - Newport Beach Facility's 67.2 kBtu/ft² across 110,855 sq ft works out to about 7.4 billion Btu (2,183 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 1,431,297 kWh of electricity and 25,981 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 30-E1 Harbor Justice Center - Newport Beach Facility to report its energy use?

30-E1 Harbor Justice Center - Newport Beach Facility 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 2024 disclosure (source record california:4404963:2024). 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.