3305 State St, Santa Barbara, Ca 93105, Usa

How does 3305 State St, Santa Barbara, Ca 93105, Usa 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. 3305 State St, Santa Barbara, Ca 93105, Usa's ENERGY STAR score of 6 compares with an average of 76 across the 1,305 that report a score; it scores higher than 4% of them and lower than 95%. Its site EUI of 84.0 kBtu/ft² is about 58% above the average of 53.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.0 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 52% above the group average of 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 78,034 sq ft, it is about 37% below the average floor area of 124,053 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1980, 11 years earlier 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 6 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 6 means the building performs better than about 6% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 6 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 69 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. 3305 State St, Santa Barbara, Ca 93105, Usa's 84.0 kBtu/ft² across 78,034 sq ft works out to about 6.6 billion Btu (1,921 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 1,727,640 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires 3305 State St, Santa Barbara, Ca 93105, Usa to report its energy use?

3305 State St, Santa Barbara, Ca 93105, Usa 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:37595699:2024). 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.