5620-Hilton Garden Inn Pismo Beach

How does 5620-Hilton Garden Inn Pismo Beach compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. 5620-Hilton Garden Inn Pismo Beach's ENERGY STAR score of 81 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 46% of them and lower than 52%. Its site EUI of 72.7 kBtu/ft² is about 11% above the average of 65.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 81,880 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2000, 12 years later than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 81 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 81 means the building performs better than about 81% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 81 falls in band B — above median (70–84). Scores of 75 or higher meet the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification; certification itself is a separate, verified application that the disclosure does not record. 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. 5620-Hilton Garden Inn Pismo Beach's 72.7 kBtu/ft² across 81,880 sq ft works out to about 6 billion Btu (1,745 MWh-equivalent) in 2021. The disclosure also reports 694,587 kWh of electricity and 34,955 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 5620-Hilton Garden Inn Pismo Beach to report its energy use?

5620-Hilton Garden Inn Pismo Beach 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 2021 disclosure (source record california:21375409:2021). 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.