400 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, Ca 94304, Usa

How does 400 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, Ca 94304, 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. 400 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, Ca 94304, Usa's ENERGY STAR score of 49 compares with an average of 76 across the 1,305 that report a score; it scores higher than 19% of them and lower than 81%. Its site EUI of 53.6 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 53.2 kBtu/ft². Its emissions intensity of 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 120,000 sq ft, it is roughly in line with 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.

How has 400 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, Ca 94304, Usa's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for 400 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, Ca 94304, Usa, covering report years 2023–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 6 in 2023 to 49 in 2024 (+43 points). Site EUI moved from 56.9 kBtu/ft² (2023) to 53.6 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 6% decrease. Reported emissions went from 412 tCO₂e to 400 tCO₂e over the same span (down 3%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 49 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 49 means the building performs better than about 49% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 49 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 26 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. 400 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, Ca 94304, Usa's 53.6 kBtu/ft² across 120,000 sq ft works out to about 6.4 billion Btu (1,885 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 1,594,041 kWh of electricity and 7,347 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 400 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, Ca 94304, Usa to report its energy use?

400 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, Ca 94304, 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:57511292:2024). 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.