5353, 5403, 5353 & 5303 Betsy Ross Drive, Santa Clara

How does 5353, 5403, 5353 & 5303 Betsy Ross Drive, Santa Clara compare with other office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 6,214 office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 12.8 kBtu/ft² is about 77% below the average of 56.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 0.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 76% below the group average of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 50,200 sq ft, it is about 67% below the average floor area of 151,937 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1981, 4 years earlier than the group's average year built (1985). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 15,264 office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 59.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 12.8 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. 5353, 5403, 5353 & 5303 Betsy Ross Drive, Santa Clara's 12.8 kBtu/ft² across 50,200 sq ft works out to about 0.6 billion Btu (188 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 176,723 kWh of electricity and 1 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 5353, 5403, 5353 & 5303 Betsy Ross Drive, Santa Clara to report its energy use?

5353, 5403, 5353 & 5303 Betsy Ross Drive, Santa Clara 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 2018 disclosure (source record california:6841678:2018). 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.